Location: Old World Union

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The Confederacy of Arkansas Steamed Cockerel is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.629 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Chicken Slaughter House. The average income tax rate is 47%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

Dead Chickens are considered a delicacy, politicians are to be found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, and police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Arkansas Steamed Cockerel's national animal is the Dead Chicken, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Chicken Meat.

Arkansas Steamed Cockerel is ranked 29th in Old World Union and 50,392nd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 12 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and