Location: the Pacific

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The Holy Empire of San Iker Casillas is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Iker Casillas with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.138 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santiago Bernabéu. The average income tax rate is 94%. 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.

Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, and politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Iker Casillas's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is La Furia Roja, and its currency is the Clean Sheet.

San Iker Casillas is ranked 3,780th in the Pacific and 100,566th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 11 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and