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The Kingdom of -Mengwitani is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by I Gusti Agung Sakti with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.223 billion Mengwians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kawyapura. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Mengwitanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,830 trillion Coin Kepengs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 198,444 Coin Kepengs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,812,956 per year while the poor average 2,378, a ratio of 762 to 1.

Military chiefs are predicting extra funding in this year's budget, drowning sailors are hung out to dry, the inside lane of every highway is for parked vehicles only, and sly spies try to rely on national allies so that they don't die. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. -Mengwitani's national animal is the Bali Myna, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Hinduism Bali.

-Mengwitani is ranked 233,910^th in the world and 13^th in Indonesia Nusantara for Most Developed, scoring 52.5 on the Human Development Index.