Location: 10000 Islands

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The Amalgamated Rogue State of Svensgardia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Fearless Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.452 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 Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Booty Bay. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Woodchip Exports.

The government is avowedly atheist, reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up, government-run brothels can be found on every street corner, and the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Svensgardia's national animal is the Narwhal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is worshipping Fearless Leader, and its currency is the Shiny Object.

Svensgardia is ranked 273rd in 10000 Islands and 9,067th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 22 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and