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“Onward, to futility!”

The Rogue Nation of Kalthar is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 580 million 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 juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalthar City. 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.

Children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, adultery has been made a capital offence, the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Kalthar's national animal is the space hamster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the shiny.

Kalthar is ranked 1926th in the region and 49,220th in the world for Most Politically Free Nations.