The Sky

Imagine that there's a large nation in West Asia ruled by El Supremo, an authoritarian decision-maker. Everyone obeys him (for now). Or at least it looks--from a distance--as if everyone obeys him. 

El Supremo's qualification for holding a position of central importance for 8o million people is that he's the world's leading expert on an imaginary friend in the sky. This spirit in the sky apparently cares deeply about what humans eat and how they have intercourse and how many times each day they face the east and how they comb their hair. (Not even El Supremo can say why. )