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The Empire of The Etherian Horde

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The Empire of The Etherian Horde is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its soft-spoken computers, public floggings, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.269 billion Etherian Hordeans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Fright Zone. The average income tax rate is 65.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Etherian Hordean economy, worth 583 trillion Ration Bars 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, 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 257,197 Ration Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, and hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Etherian Horde's national animal is the Pooka, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Etherian Horde is ranked 142,723^rd in the world and 3,995^th in the West Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,193.15 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

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