The Dance Now of A Deal With The Devil is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Satan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.221 billion demons 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, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hell. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant demonic economy, worth 7.76 trillion fires 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 a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 3,493 fires, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

90% of active duty ADWTDAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, and the door-to-door insurance sales industry has been boxed into a corner. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Deal With The Devil's national animal is the Beelzebub, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Satanism.

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