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The Avatar of Lust of Asmodeus2662 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lucifer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, prohibition of alcohol, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.719 billion Demons are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Devildom. The average income tax rate is 26.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Asmodeus2662ian economy, worth 67.0 trillion Souls 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Tourism. 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 38,978 Souls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One of the nation's leading exports is empty platitudes, childhood friends of Lucifer are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, all funding starts one dime at a time, and women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asmodeus2662's national animal is the Cerberus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Asmodeus2662 is ranked 149,941^st in the world and 95^th in Hell for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 392.4 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.