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The Unpredictable Chaostocracy of Dodecahedria is a colossal, devout nation, ruled by The Croupier with an iron fist, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8.493 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.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Some Random Village. The average income tax rate is 24%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, graffiti graces every city's streets, citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Dodecahedria's national animal is the flipping bird, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Tyche, and its currency is the polyhedron.

Dodecahedria is ranked 1st in Random and 18,015th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 4 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and