Location: Blammus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Egeden is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by KingZombieBunny with an iron fist, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20.559 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic 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 Gerbilia. The average income tax rate is 100%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Uranium Mining.

The police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, speaking out against the government is punishable by flogging, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Egeden's national animal is the rabbit, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is KZB, and its currency is the Fuzzle.

Egeden is ranked 1st in Blammus and 34th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 31 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and