Location: Mercenary Lands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Barbaric Empire of Xeraph is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Amalric Tan'it with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.342 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism industries.

Citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, the government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year, and murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour. Crime is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Xeraph's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Essene Zen-Tao, and its currency is the topaz ring.

Xeraph is ranked 1st in Mercenary Lands and 16,509th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and