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The Dictatorship of Ameriganastan

“Cull the weak, reward the loyal”

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The Dictatorship of Ameriganastan is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Darius Varheim with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 34.164 billion Ameriganis 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Varheim City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ameriganastanian economy, worth an astonishing 16,946 trillion Varheims 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, Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. 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 496,041 Varheims, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,800,280 per year while the poor average 97,343, a ratio of 18.5 to 1.

Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, school uniforms are compulsory, jaywalking is punishable by public flogging, and songs of praise to Lord Darius Varheim are filled with coded messages from the resistance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ameriganastan's national animal is the Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of Saraya.

Ameriganastan is ranked 337,320^th in the world and 42^nd in The Alliance of Dictators for Most Pacifist, with 2.98 cheeks turned per day.

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