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The Corporate States of Cossmania

“Anything for the corporation.”

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The Corporate States of Cossmania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Board President Robert Morton with an iron fist, and notable for its enslaved workforce, strictly enforced bedtime, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.365 billion Cossmanians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Education, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delta City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Cossmanian economy, worth a remarkable 8,950 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 400,219 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,056,469 per year while the poor average 14,336, a ratio of 213 to 1.

International collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Cossmania, people think "siege mentality" is a positive trait, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, and Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Cossmania's national animal is the Honey Badger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Hero Worship.

Cossmania is ranked 2,927^th in the world and 9^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 12,118.57 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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