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The Queendom of Aadhiris2 is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 4.586 billion Aadhiris2ians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 56.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Aadhiris2ian economy, worth 76.5 trillion StarDollars 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, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 16,689 StarDollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aadhiris2's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aadhiris2 is ranked 119,404^th in the world and 1^st in Kreushia for Largest Black Market, with 1.83 trillion Standard Monetary Units.