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The Problem Child of Nihilistico

“Nihil sine labore”

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The Problem Child of Nihilistico is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sai with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 987 million Rats are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Narconolian State Sewer. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped roleplay economy, worth 46.2 trillion Cares Givens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 46,801 Cares Givens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, vegetarianism is compulsory, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, and Sai has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nihilistico's national animal is the Crazed alligator, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nihilistico is ranked 240,840^th in the world and 375^th in Council of Asia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.24 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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