Location: Central Eastern Europe

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The Infinite Empire of DarthStassen is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Papst-Imperator Alexander XXIII with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 13.357 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, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Königsberg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining industries.

DarthStassen's army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. DarthStassen's national animal is the dachshund, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Imperial Catholicism, and its currency is the Credit.

DarthStassen is ranked 8th in Central Eastern Europe and 83,525th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.137 Stalins.

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