Location: Gensokyo

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The MEN'S WEARHOUSE of Sakura Sencha is a massive, devout nation, ruled by GEORGE ZIMMER-FOUNDER AND CEO with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.925 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Religion & Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of LOCKED PROSTATE. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80%. 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.

Police officers have nearly cracked a major underage astronomy syndicate, prosecutors routinely call transplant doctors as 'expert witnesses' in burglary cases, homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, and vets have been drafted in to help "fix" those who fail the parental license exam. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Sakura Sencha's national animal is the BALLSACK RAPTOR, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is ANAL-RAPTURISM, and its currency is the PELVIC PALADIN.

Sakura Sencha is ranked 4th in Gensokyo and 3,688th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring 19 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and