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“Cultus imperatoris nostra lex”

The Holy Empire of Deitum is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Eternal Emperor with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, cynical population of 7.94 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deitum City. The average income tax rate is 94%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native Deitumite casinos, and people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deitum's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is paganism, and its currency is the sol.

Deitum is ranked 2nd in the region and 185th in the world for Best Weather.