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“If we want your opinion, we'll give it to you.”

The Despotic AoD Recruiter of Central Cinistra is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Enigma IV with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.818 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adspam. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Gambling.

Citizens select which government department gets their income tax cinisters each year, nudity is frowned upon, politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, and people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Central Cinistra's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is none, and its currency is the cinister.

Central Cinistra is ranked 12th in the region and 2,421st in the world for Largest Publishing Industry.