Location: Capitalist Paradise

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Corporate Caliphate of Tricom Industries Inc is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Caliph Sherif Ali with an iron fist, and notable for its suspicion of poets. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.708 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shari'abad. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology industries.

Tricom Industries Inc-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, eight year-olds with lemonade stands have been known to be locked up on charges of embezzlement, and Harry Potter books are banned. Crime is crippling. Tricom Industries Inc's national animal is the weasel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Sunni Islam, and its currency is the tricredit.

Tricom Industries Inc is ranked 527th in Capitalist Paradise and 125,658th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 20 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and