Location: Western Atlantic

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy and Most August Empire of Pantocratoria is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by Emperor Andreus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.359 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

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 Religion & Spirituality, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Rome. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry.

Pantocratoria-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory minature radios, jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pantocratoria's national animal is the peacock, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Catholicism or Greek Orthodoxy, and its currency is the Atlantic Ducat.

Pantocratoria is ranked 27th in Western Atlantic and 93,997th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -39 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and