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The Dictatorship of Stay Forever

“You cant leave or enter”

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The Dictatorship of Stay Forever is a huge, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 262 million Stay Foreverians 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.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 53.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Stay Foreverian economy, worth 11.9 trillion Peoples a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Woodchip Exports, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 45,335 Peoples, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Stay Forever City for fear of causing a fuss, arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, and Leader claims to be the epitome of family values. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stay Forever's national animal is the human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Stay Forever is ranked 75,341^st in the world and 4^th in Spiritalia for Safest, scoring 92.85 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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