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The Holy Empire of Bethesda Scamville

“I mean if it makes us money its good”

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The Holy Empire of Bethesda Scamville is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 750 million Bethesda Scamvilleans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockville. The average income tax rate is 49.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bethesda Scamvillean economy, worth 95.3 trillion caps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 127,000 caps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political dissidents are cut off from essential services, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, and restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Bethesda Scamville. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bethesda Scamville's national animal is the nuke.

Bethesda Scamville is ranked 142,316^th in the world and 253^rd in Conch Kingdom for Most Beautiful Environments, with 519.63 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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