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“You may all stop clapping at the ringing of the bell.”

The Many Arms of Myrth is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Stavros Djubric with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 15.573 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Myrantos. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

Most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, cremation is compulsory for the deceased, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Myrth's national animal is the black dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Myrthan Soul.

Myrth is ranked 5th in the region and 96th in the world for Largest Nations.