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The Dictatorship of Maxess is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.199 billion Maxessians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Maxessian economy, worth 185 trillion obsidians a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 154,349 obsidians, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,403,202 per year while the poor average 1,942, a ratio of 722 to 1.

Corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, Leader has been seen stealthily slicing fifths off bread loaves, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and blocked storm drains cause sanitation problems. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Maxess's national animal is the gryphon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Maxess is ranked 86,816^th in the world and 11^th in The Slumber for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,529.43 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.