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The Completely Failed State of Angbhand

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The Completely Failed State of Angbhand is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Endymion with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.936 billion Angbhandians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Industry, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sylvania. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Angbhandian economy, worth an astonishing 12,881 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 a breathtaking 760,579 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is wading into dangerous waters, children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, and funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Angbhand's national animal is the worg, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Angbhand is ranked 128^th in the world and 5^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 176.99 flags saluted per person per day.

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