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The Empire of Aerikia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 916 million Aerikis enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 25.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Aerikian economy, worth 38.7 trillion Krimats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 42,299 Krimats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits, feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Artic Fox, and government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries. Crime is totally unknown. Aerikia's national animal is the Artic Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aerikia is ranked 308,140^th in the world and 84^th in MHBs New Earth for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.17 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.