Location: Carnival of Souls

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The Insanely Wrecked Nation of Glugerstut is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Johnathan Howard Flagstaff II with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.658 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Glugerstut City. The average income tax rate is 66%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing industries.

Citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Glugerstut's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Euro.

Glugerstut is ranked 2nd in Carnival of Souls and 32,828th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 23 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and