Location: The East Pacific

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The Rancid Spleen Water of A mean old man is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by a tired and angry old fart with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.459 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 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 the world. The average income tax rate is 99%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Citizens must have a license to operate a computer, all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number, the government funds private schools for intellectually gifted children, and the government seizes the property of the recently deceased. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. A mean old man's national animal is the really old cat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is forgotten, and its currency is the colostomy bag.

A mean old man is ranked 148th in The East Pacific and 4,749th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 36 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and