Location: Wysteria

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The Dominion of Complete Bastards is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Supreme Bastard with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20.288 billion 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business individuals devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gekkopolis. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Automobile Manufacturing.

Penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative', a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, and movies and computer games are strictly censored for violence. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Complete Bastards's national animal is the spotted jackal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Basic Fundamentalism, and its currency is the shticlar.

Complete Bastards is ranked 27th in Wysteria and 394th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 228 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and