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“For Home and the Throne, for Kagetora and the Shogun”

The Daibakufu of Kagetora is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Tokugawa Ienara with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.354 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edo. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing industries.

The police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, and popular political cartoonists are thrown in jail for inciting dissent. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Kagetora's national animal is the Tora, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Atheism, and its currency is the Ryo.

Kagetora is ranked 2nd in the region and 750th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.