The United States of Tyranny and Dictators is a small, religious, nation tucked between Soviet Canuckistan and the Banana Republic of Illegal Immigration. It is lead by corrupt dictator and his corporate cronies. The USTD is noted for its complete absence of public healthcare, public education, and social welfare. Anyone who speaks out against the regime faces either imprisonment or death. There is a state run television station which spews government propaganda in order to control the minds of the nations people. Intellectuals are regularly rounded up and shipped off to detention centers for extraordinary rendition. Government run media outlets praise the regime for its extensive civil and political rights but hide that fact that dissidents are marginalized and imprisoned for speaking out