what's Dept of Death?

Dept of Death is the entity behind Death & Taxes, a brutal onchain survival and strategy game on Ethereum. It launches 6,969 citizen NFTs into a system where participants must navigate taxes, audits, insurance, and bailouts. Taxes are collected in ETH at rates like 0.00069 ETH per citizen, funding a community treasury, while failure to comply risks audits leading to citizen death. Only 69 citizens are projected to survive long-term.[[1]](https://x.com/i/status/2028622750504394942)[[5]](https://web3.okx.com/id/nft/collection/eth/%F0%9D%94%A1%F0%9D%94%A2%F0%9D%94%9E%F0%9D%94%B1%F0%9D%94%A5-%F0%9D%94%9E%F0%9D%94%AB%F0%9D%94%A1-%F0%9D%94%B1%F0%9D%94%9E%F0%9D%94%B5%F0%9D%94%A2%F0%9D%94%B0-%F0%9D%94%A0%F0%9D%94%A6%F0%9D%94%B1%F0%9D%94%A6%F0%9D%94%B7%F0%9D%94%A2%F0%9D%94%AB%F0%9D%94%B0) Players interact via the citizen portal at deptofdeath.xyz to manage holdings, pay taxes, initiate audits, and access game stats. The ecosystem encourages building approved tools, bots, and apps for evasion or strategy, with procurement processes for verification. Automated updates via X and Telegram bot keep the community informed on population, treasury, and events like tax deadlines.[[3]](https://deptofdeath.xyz/portal)

Dept of Death protocol has 690 tax-paying citizens, with only 69 planned to survive.