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The Confederacy of Hospitaller West Indies

“Par Dioa it Libertate!”

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The Confederacy of Hospitaller West Indies is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, zero percent divorce rate, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 660 million West Hospitallers 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, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Libertatie. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.4%.

The frighteningly efficient West Hospitaller economy, worth 72.3 trillion West Hospitaller Livres a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 109,603 West Hospitaller Livres, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 997,862 per year while the poor average 1,359, a ratio of 733 to 1.

Historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism, Leader is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls, charity no longer begins at home, and glue production is at an all-time high. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hospitaller West Indies's national animal is the Saint's Parrot, which is also the nation's favorite main course.