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The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos

“Gunshots, Explosions, And Turmoil! Let’s All GET To It!”

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The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 838 million Zandosians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandian. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 109 trillion Zandollas 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 130,752 Zandollas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 379,767 per year while the poor average 35,633, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay, companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave, and human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zandos's national animal is the D U C C, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zandos is ranked 76,687^th in the world and 2,066^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,793.34 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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