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The Howling WhoreHouse of Damaia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Toni Dila with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.533 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brothel Brotherhood. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Book Publishing industries.

Citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, and owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Damaia's national animal is the Broadway Artist, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the ABBA Cd.

Damaia is ranked 164th in the region and 17,679th in the world for Largest Nations.