Location: New Suffolk

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The Great Kingdom of Aston is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Great King Aston III with an iron fist, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 22.695 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, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aston City. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining industries.

Businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems, Animal Liberationists are regularly jailed, the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, and citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Aston's national animal is the Suffolk Punch, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Branston Pickle.

Aston is ranked 2nd in New Suffolk and 101,310th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.051 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and