Vick,
No such confusion here.
The Democratic Republic of Dark Logic is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 32 million are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.
There is no government in the normal sense the word; however, a small group of community-minded, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Law & Order. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing industries.
Scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied serpent, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities Crime is a serious problem. Dark Logic's national animal is the serpent, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Rand.
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