Location: Occitania

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The Imperial Nation of Haldasia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Vincent Colpeper with an iron fist, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.84 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 Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bá Ciarraí. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

Travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, and criminals are thrown to the Irish Wolfhounds to repay their debt to society. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Haldasia's national animal is the Irish Wolfhound, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is There is no religion, and its currency is the Occitan Euro.

Haldasia is ranked 1st in Occitania and 1,463rd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 35 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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