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The CultoKingdom dystopia of BarrenHills is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Darkminister Iglis Zerick with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.88 billion oppresseds are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ██████████████████. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The all-consuming BarrenHillsian economy, worth 317 trillion Corrupted Oracles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 110,176 Corrupted Oracles, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

Hammering a nail into a wall is an effective death sentence, Darkminister Iglis Zerick has just been declared ruler of BarrenHills in an international press conference, open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries, and a cat may look at a king and a dude can look at an ass. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. BarrenHills's national animal is the ██████████████████, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Scattered Cultism.

BarrenHills is ranked 107,837^th in the world and 31^st in Christians for Largest Black Market, with 2.39 trillion Standard Monetary Units.