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The Marauding Machines of Alorgaze

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The Marauding Machines of Alorgaze is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Kaledrone X with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.215 billion Gazians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alorgan. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 89.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Alorgazean economy, worth a remarkable 2,695 trillion Agands 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 433,657 Agands, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,629,870 per year while the poor average 80,546, a ratio of 20.2 to 1.

Students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games, tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward, the domestic version of the Paddington Bear movie was a far shorter and bloodier tale, and slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alorgaze's national animal is the Gazian Cobra, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Alorgaze is ranked 258,076^th in the world and 97^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.41 bananas ingested per day.

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