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The Eternal Dream Realm of Morturaria is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Dael Azrael Wintergate with an iron fist, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.904 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 Education, Law & Order, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of L'Etoile de Sang. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, citizens select which government department gets their income tax soul spheres each year, chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports, and the government pours millions of soul spheres into rehabilitation programs annually. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Morturaria's national animal is the Sphinx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Yaoism, and its currency is the soul sphere.

Morturaria is ranked 208th in NationStates and 101,317th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -73 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and