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The Unholy Black Dominion of Arcterus

“Well...we all have to live somehow”

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The Unholy Black Dominion of Arcterus is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Prime Executor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.707 billion Arcterrans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Installation Heliopolis. The average income tax rate is 88.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Arcterian economy, worth a remarkable 3,496 trillion Sticks a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Book Publishing, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 130,933 Sticks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Recognizing the Arcterian flag qualifies you for citizenship, homophobia is off the menu, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Arcterus to be bombproof, and internet sites are legally unable to stop their users from posting pornography. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Arcterus's national animal is the Lazy Stoned Monk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arcterus is ranked 294,356^th in the world and 105^th in Yggdrasil for Lowest Crime Rates, with 1.53 law-abiding acts per hour.

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