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“Regnat Populus”

The Grand Duchy of San Sasnakra is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its national health service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.28 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing industries.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, the government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year, and San Sasnakra is notorious for its citizens' infidelity. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Sasnakra's national animal is the Razorback Hog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Ducat.

San Sasnakra is ranked 1st in the region and 2,166th in the world for Rudest Citizens.