Location: Pelononia

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The Sultanate of Syrakhstan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sultaness Suraya Akir with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.36 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

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 Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asgabhad. The average income tax rate is 95%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

The Persian Leopard is a protected species, students abandon classrooms for online education, Syrakhstan is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and popular websites like NationStates are blocked for "national security". Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Syrakhstan's national animal is the Persian Leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Islam, and its currency is the Shahi.

Syrakhstan is ranked 1st in Pelononia and 8,511th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 74 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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