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The Exalted Supremacy of East Borland

“Crush Their Spirits and You Will Control Their Minds”

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The Exalted Supremacy of East Borland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by His Supreme Eminence with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 38.069 billion East Borlandists 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Lair. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient East Borlandian economy, worth an astonishing 34,541 trillion Slaves a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is a breathtaking 907,338 Slaves, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,260,047 per year while the poor average 74,332, a ratio of 70.8 to 1.

Every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. East Borland's national animal is the Gila Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Oppression.

East Borland is ranked 237,828^th in the world and 111^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 2.41 tourists per hour.

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