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The Occupied Land of Summerset Castle

“Praise be the Glorious Sun.”

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The Occupied Land of Summerset Castle is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Barnes with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.165 billion Summersetians 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 prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Industry are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Winterspring. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Summersetian economy, worth a remarkable 6,544 trillion shards 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 404,872 shards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, even doll houses and dog kennels have to be able to withstand rigorous earthquake testing, cleaners are very careful not to bump into the big red button on Barnes's desk, and city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Summerset Castle's national animal is the frog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Solarity.

Summerset Castle is ranked 288,942^nd in the world and 11,232^nd in Balder for Highest Food Quality, scoring 3.54 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.

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