Location: The Alliance of Dictators

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pharaonic Empire of Cyrod is a massive, devout nation, ruled by Arawn with an iron fist, and notable for its suspicion of poets. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.386 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, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ar-Pharazawn. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Automobile Manufacturing.

The armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, Cyrod's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of academic achievement, and genetic researchers have been expelled. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Cyrod's national animal is the Slave, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is The Temple of the Horned King, and its currency is the Slave.

Cyrod is ranked 20th in The Alliance of Dictators and 2,776th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 30 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and