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“Mooning the crown of Atenvelt.”

The Barony of Twin Moons is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Baron with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.137 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Religion & Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Vanity is considered the eigth cardinal virtue, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, and citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Twin Moons's national animal is the Elf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the gold piece.

Twin Moons is ranked 27th in the region and 8,092nd in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.