Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Eternal Soul of Lord Loren Soth of Dargaard Keep is a massive, devout nation, ruled by Lord Soth with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.822 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Law & Order, and Public Transport. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dargaard Keep. The average income tax rate is 51%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports.

Government spending has hit an all-time low, society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy, suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime is moderate. Lord Loren Soth of Dargaard Keep's national animal is the Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the steel coin.

Lord Loren Soth of Dargaard Keep is ranked 2,462nd in the Rejected Realms and 71,962nd in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 13 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and