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The Office of Afro Founder is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 15.341 billion Africans 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, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 35.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Afro Founderian economy, worth 555 trillion Afroes a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,233 Afroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afro Founder's national animal is the African Fish Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Afro Founder is ranked 252,711^th in the world and 117^th in Africa for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 25.3 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.