Category: Compulsory Consumerist State
Civil Rights: Some
Economy: Powerhouse
Political Freedoms: Outlawed
Location: The Black Riders New
The Armada of Naked Seamen of Waterlords is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.3 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Magwapohun. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.
Waterlords has become a gigantic dustbowl filled with tourists and mean desperados, atheists are heavily taxed, citizens must have a license to operate a computer, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Waterlords's national animal is the tarsier, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Waterloo.
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