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The Ancien Régime of Akdulj

“The bread is stale, and the circus is boring”

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The Ancien Régime of Akdulj is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its digital currency, free-roaming dinosaurs, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.905 billion Al-Akduljikla are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Igaersta. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Al-Akdulji economy, worth a remarkable 2,182 trillion doubloons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 245,041 doubloons, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,008,980 per year while the poor average 6,339, a ratio of 316 to 1.

A commonwealth of equal nations recognises that Akdulj is a bit more equal than the others, soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, scientists take credit every time it rains in Sancturia, and citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Akdulj's national animal is the Chihuahua, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Akdulj is ranked 10,270^th in the world and 9^th in Sancturia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 420.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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