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The Republic of A wolf is a mammoth, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 9.275 billion wolfs are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 36.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient wolf economy, worth 280 trillion rubledollars a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,239 rubledollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, military spending recently hit a new high, and looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A wolf's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A wolf is ranked 203,969^th in the world and 1^st in Khanate of Laz for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 53.39 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.