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The Sinqalastat of Afrika Utara is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by High Priest Kavin Xhuwei with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.155 billion Eightsaarans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xettoainer. The average income tax rate is 42.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Eightsaaran economy, worth a remarkable 1,372 trillion Moneik'rs 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Trout Farming, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 122,998 Moneik'rs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Vital intelligence-gathering activities are often put on hold for Call of Honor tournaments, children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads, and the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afrika Utara's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Children of Kat'herina.

Afrika Utara is ranked 1,216^th in the world and 1^st in Zero for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 16,313.7 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.