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The Astral Knight of Arstoria

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The Astral Knight of Arstoria is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Callisto with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, public floggings, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.322 billion Arstorians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flanaca. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arstorian economy, worth 211 trillion Arstoes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving 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. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 91,138 Arstoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, and the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Arstoria's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arstoria is ranked 301,394^th in the world and 3,361^st in the Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.82 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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