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The Broken Sanctuary of The Blood Suckers is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Alexander with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.884 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business 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 Coffin Club. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70%. 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.

Sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high, students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, many working fathers have never seen their children, and the government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Blood Suckers's national animal is the Vampire, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Bleeding, and its currency is the Blood Money.

The Blood Suckers is ranked 4th in Assassins and 90,198th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 13 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and