Thingfjord

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The Third Street Saints of Thingfjord is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Lord Commander Shepard the Bhaalspawn with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 930 million are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liberty City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 94%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Thingfjord to be bombproof, and the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thingfjord's national animal is the Metal Dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Crown.

History

Thingfjord was founded by disparate peoples drawn together by common urge to escape homeland oppression/debts/outstanding warrants.

People migrating north from Maras Zeme were the first modern day settlers in the region, that is known as a borderland since it is the boundary north between Maraland and the uninhabitable Northern Wastelands.