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The Mysterious Black Hole of Roless

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The Mysterious Black Hole of Roless is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The High Queen of Roless with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, state-planned economy, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 12.687 billion Rolessians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atchta. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Rolessian economy, worth a remarkable 6,654 trillion Rezzats 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 a breathtaking 524,545 Rezzats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule Roless but at least the trains run on time, the only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it, the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war, and The High Queen of Roless signs the laws but abides by none of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roless's national animal is the Funky badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Funkyism.

Roless is ranked 53,493^rd in the world and 40^th in Forest for Most Extreme, scoring 30.73 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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