Location: Forlorn Hope

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of The Evil Overlord is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Evil Overlord with an iron fist, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.652 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Public Transport. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mikalgard. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

The government jails the parents of underage drinkers, crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country, people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales, and construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. The Evil Overlord's national animal is the Blathersnatch, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is officially atheist, and its currency is the EOE Credit.

The Evil Overlord is ranked 5th in Forlorn Hope and 94,994th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -553 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and