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The Imperium of Velon

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The Imperium of Velon is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by SQUEE with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 40.863 billion velonians 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 relatively small government is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with Healthcare, Public Transport, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of poopopolis. The average income tax rate is 7.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse velonian economy, worth a remarkable 9,672 trillion donut holes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 236,713 donut holes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many suspect the government "doth protest too much" with their curiously specific denials of conspiracy theories, government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains, commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives, and goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter. Crime is totally unknown. Velon's national animal is the piggus chonkus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Velon is ranked 285,811^th in the world and 6,258^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.25 flags saluted per person per day.

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