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The Royal Fire Star Sceptre of Galactic Furs is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Major IrishSetter CEO with an iron fist, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.44 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marina City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Galactic Furs's national animal is the Red Flox Setter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Interstellar Universal Catholic Furres, and its currency is the Kibble.

Galactic Furs is ranked 2nd in And A Great Big Bushy Beard and 8,310th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 43 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and