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“Nobody dies a virgin. Life screws us all.”

The Dictatorship of Friendly Monsters is a huge, devout nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 735 million are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moon star city. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

Otherwise healthy people are being sent to internment camps because they have VODAIS, jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food", and military spending is on the increase. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Friendly Monsters's national animal is the bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the scares.

Friendly Monsters is ranked 121st in the region and 46,299th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.