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The Empire of Scandrial

“Conquer and Prosper”

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The Empire of Scandrial is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Lord Conqueror with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, enslaved workforce, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.352 billion Skaa 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 and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Nexus of a Thousand Spires. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Skaa economy, worth an astonishing 10,090 trillion bitcoins 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, fairly diversified 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 657,294 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, billions of bitcoins are being blown on orbital weapons development, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, and there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandrial's national animal is the crow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Scandrial is ranked 32,796^th in the world and 215^th in The East Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 38.21 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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