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“Through Isolation, Preservation. ”

The Protectorate of Ninivarnia is a massive, devout nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.179 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Perservation State. The average income tax rate is 92%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Gambling and Arms Manufacturing.

Anti-government web sites are springing up, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and people can often be seen driving to work in war-surplus tanks. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ninivarnia's national animal is the Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Deun.

Ninivarnia is ranked 4th in the region and 46,100th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.