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The Un-Holy Grey Zombie Wastes of Shrilling Fields

“To destroy you is no loss, to preserve you is no gain.”

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The Un-Holy Grey Zombie Wastes of Shrilling Fields is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Uncle Slab DuCulte with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.327 billion Fieldsmen are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lenfer Sannom Phnaur. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The thriving Shrilling economy, worth 124 trillion riens 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Soda Sales, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 94,130 riens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 740,858 per year while the poor average 2,965, a ratio of 249 to 1.

Lenfer Sannom Phnaur's flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space, train stations can be 'armful places, the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books, and tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Shrilling Fields's national animal is the khmaoch, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Death Worship.

Shrilling Fields is ranked 259,968^th in the world and 109^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.32 bananas ingested per day.

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