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The Queendom of Tinkleflaps

“When it rains, it poors”

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The Queendom of Tinkleflaps is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.542 billion Tinkleflapsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Healthcare, with Education, Environment, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Niffstipples. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tinkleflapsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,308 trillion Tampaxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 79,090 Tampaxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tinkleflaps's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tinkleflaps is ranked 275,220^th in the world and 16^th in Equinox for Most Patriotic, with 0.63 flags saluted per person per day.

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