Location: Nova

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The Unitary Technocracy of Etoile Arcture is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Soledad Martin with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 13.389 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Corinth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Automobile Manufacturing.

Etoile Arcture has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, the newspaper industry is subsidised by the government in order to keep it afloat, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, and it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Etoile Arcture's national animal is the Hirsute Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is no religion, and its currency is the Simoleon.

Etoile Arcture is ranked 5th in Nova and 71,914th in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 13 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and