Location: 00000 A World Power

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Love of Death or Life is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Thomas Matthew Delonge with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.444 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, 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 Santa Fe. The average income tax rate is 98%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Military spending recently hit a new high, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, military service is compulsory, and urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Death or Life's national animal is the Soilder, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Anti-war, and its currency is the Live.

Death or Life is ranked 24th in 00000 A World Power and 114,951st in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 45 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and