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The Conglomerate of Orcuo

“Domination By All Measures”

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The Conglomerate of Orcuo is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme OverLord with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.049 billion Orcuans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Imperial Citadel. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Orcuian economy, worth a remarkable 2,194 trillion Bureau Administered Credits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. 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 an amazing 362,843 Bureau Administered Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities, requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions, scientists are researching the best way to kill off humanity to prevent catastrophic war, and the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orcuo's national animal is the Octopus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Blue Blood Unity.

Orcuo is ranked 1,520^th in the world and 36^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Poor Incomes, with 241,093.51 Standard Monetary Units.

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