The Holy Empire of Sanatica is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lucifer with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.274 billion Sanaticans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hell. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient Sanatican economy, worth 88.4 trillion Rocrays 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, 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 69,400 Rocrays, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
First-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, books are often used as kindling, and a signed affidavit from a prominent anti-corruption advocate declares that she is in fact a crook after all. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sanatica's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Satanism.
Sanatica is ranked 290,506th in the world and 12th in Thegye for Rudest Citizens, with 12.95 insults per minute.
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Sanatica was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Authoritarian.
- : Sanatica was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Sanatica was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments and the Top 10% for Most Advanced Public Education and Most Extensive Public Healthcare.
- : Following new legislation in Sanatica, a signed affidavit from a prominent anti-corruption advocate declares that he is in fact a crook after all.
- : Following new legislation in Sanatica, books are often used as kindling.
- : Following new legislation in Sanatica, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions.
- : Following new legislation in Sanatica, first-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one.
- : Following new legislation in Sanatica, the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens.
- : Sanatica was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
- : Sanatica's influence in Thegye rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".