Location: central europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Deus ex Machina of Republic of salo is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Il Duce with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.833 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."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Automobile Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

Drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, criminals are executed and their property seized, and employers may fire workers without giving any reason. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Republic of salo's national animal is the duce, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Duceism, and its currency is the lire.

Republic of salo is ranked 10th in central europe and 37,190th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 22 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and