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The State of Sgiogarstaigh

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Category: Corrupt Dictatorship
Civil Rights:
Good
Economy:
Basket Case
Political Freedoms:
Outlawed

Regional Influence: Hermit

Location: Northern District

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Sgiogarstaigh

Population17.506 billion

CapitalWestminster

Currencybetale
Animaldeer

The State of Sgiogarstaigh is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 17.506 billion Sgiogarstaighians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Sgiogarstaighian economy, worth 202 trillion betales 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Soda Sales. 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 11,569 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging, the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and Sgiogarstaigh has designated Westminster as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sgiogarstaigh's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sgiogarstaigh is ranked 6,248th in the world and 1st in Northern District for Most Stationary, with 2,924.26918402208 days.

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Most Stationary: 6,248thMost Income Equality: 7,833rdMost Authoritarian: 13,062ndTop
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Largest Populations: 20,629thMost Secular: 26,171st

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