Location: Apolyton

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of Sirian Knights is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 20.172 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, the Environment, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 79%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Euthanasia is legal, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, movies and computer games are strictly censored for violence, and the government is seen to favor Catholics. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Sirian Knights's national animal is the silver dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the silver drakhma.

Sirian Knights is ranked 2nd in Apolyton and 76,883rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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