The Republic of Shadow Lich is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.893 billion Shadow Lichians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Shadow Lichian economy, worth a remarkable 1,026 trillion Cards a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,483 Cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.
Teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath, tweenage nobles order army regiments to do their homework for them, arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, and no one born in Shadow Lich can fix a leaky faucet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shadow Lich's national animal is the Kuriboh, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Shadow Lich is ranked 300,060th in the world and 980th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.2 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Shadow Lich's influence in Suspicious rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, no one born in Shadow Lich can fix a leaky faucet.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, tweenage nobles order army regiments to do their homework for them.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop).
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, Leader is called 'Patches' at international summits.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, wandering Shadow Lichians are known for their one-track minds.
- : Following new legislation in Shadow Lich, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms.