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“Justice for the Fittest”

The Elite Social Club of Secristan is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by President James Brennan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.511 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, pro-business morass -- juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amherst. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing.

The government is seen to favor Catholics, private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, the adult unemployment rate nears 100% as all available jobs have been filled by young children, and businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems. Crime is crippling. Secristan's national animal is the moose, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the rusa.

Secristan is ranked 7th in the region and 2,307th in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.