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“Your Hands | Our Life”

The Corporate Conglomerate of L3 Communications is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Chairwoman Alice R Meyers with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.569 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Commerce and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manhattan Island. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

It is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", and travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. L3 Communications's national animal is the foxgirl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is kibology, and its currency is the standard credit.

L3 Communications is ranked 49th in the region and 1,724th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.