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The ERRORCANNOTLOAD of Authoritism

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The ERRORCANNOTLOAD of Authoritism is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Nicholas Sonor with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.789 billion Authoritismen 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Territory. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Authoritismian economy, worth 299 trillion Authoritism Digital Notes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 167,553 Authoritism Digital Notes, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

Smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour, peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop, frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Authoritism's national animal is the Authoritismian Panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sonorism.

Authoritism is ranked 217,601^st in the world and 219^th in Lands End for Most Income Equality, scoring 10.59 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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