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The Eternal Dream Realm of Morturaria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Dael Azrael Wintergate with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 17.073 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.

Young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, and reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors. 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 485th in NationStates and 130,931st in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring -28 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and