Location: Fortress America

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grim Wastelands of The Souless Damned is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Reaper with an iron fist, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.569 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 Great Necropolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Beef-Based Agriculture and Arms Manufacturing.

Kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", a large percentage of the poor live from cradle to grave in subterranean wage slavery, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, and agricultural science is the most competitive subject at The Souless Damned's universities. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. The Souless Damned's national animal is the 3 Tailed Scorpion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Necronism, and its currency is the Gold Death Certificate.

The Souless Damned is ranked 1st in Fortress America and 2,950th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 39 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and