Location: Ankh Mauta

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The Corporate Terror Pavilion of Creative Vikings is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Board of Untrustworthy Trustees with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 4.116 billion are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Big Boss's Room on the Top Floor. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Information Technology and Beef-Based Agriculture.

All new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers, the government snoops on private internet connections, the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest Officer Temp hunting institutions, and it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Creative Vikings's national animal is the Officer Temp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christmas Partyism, and its currency is the Sandwich.

Creative Vikings is ranked 19th in Ankh Mauta and 13,705th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 20 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and