Location: 10000 Islands

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The Infection of Edgemaster is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Haruhi Suzumiya with an iron fist, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 17.301 billion enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of 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 Seireitei. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining industries.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, psychological disorders are a taboo subject, referenda are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process, and healthcare funding has been cut. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Edgemaster's national animal is the Hollow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Haruhiism, and its currency is the Gil.

Edgemaster is ranked 2,245th in 10000 Islands and 104,104th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 64 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and