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“My name is Gustavo, but you can call me Gus.”

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The United Socialist States of Samenith is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Gustavo Fring with an iron fist, and remarkable for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 5.468 billion Samenithians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Los Pollos Hermanos. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Samenithian economy, worth 564 trillion Samenithian Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,258 Samenithian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Samenith will pay them to stop, members of majority races are forced out of their homes to make way for Bigtopians, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and the new cheese tax is colloquially known as "wheel welfare". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Samenith's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Samenith is ranked 26,630^th in the world and 432^nd in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,650.72 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.