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The United Kingdoms of Brian Boruma is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by King Brian Boru with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.938 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, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boru. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

King Brian Boru has just been declared ruler of Brian Boruma in an international press conference, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, and X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brian Boruma's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Catholicism, and its currency is the pound.

Brian Boruma is ranked 6th in Free States of Gaia and 19,650th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 27 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and