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“Laboremus pro patria”

The Servile Helots of Spartan Messenia is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Theopompus I of Sparta with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.103 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, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ithome. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Gambling.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding Spartan Messenia, the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Spartan Messenia's national animal is the helot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is the cult of the Dioscuri, and its currency is the perioeci.

Spartan Messenia is ranked 29th in the region and 54,849th in the world for Best Weather.