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“Call me Emile!”

The Subtle Shenanigans of Roulette Croupier is a massive, economically powerful nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.527 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80%. A large private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Gambling.

The government is reining in public spending, computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, and homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Roulette Croupier's national animal is the smirk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the franc.

Roulette Croupier is ranked 9th in the region and 46,841st in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.