Location: Rhalith

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Morthalegan is a massive, safe nation, ruled by King George II with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.459 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, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Nurumgrad. The average income tax rate is 96%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Morthalegan's army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers, anti-environmentalist protesters are gunned down without mercy, midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, and dark alleys and public toilets are filled with furtive sexual activities among teenagers and unmarried adults. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Morthalegan's national animal is the Sasquatch, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Morthanity, and its currency is the Laeran.

Morthalegan is ranked 3rd in Rhalith and 17,278th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 28 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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