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The Republic of Albatr

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The Republic of Albatr is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Glorious Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, frequent executions, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 11.91 billion Albatrians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alba. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Albatrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,481 trillion Albas 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. 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 amazing 208,321 Albas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper, dinosaur breeders have a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time in Albatr, tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens, and dining out often involves Albatrosses on the plate no matter what you order. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Albatr's national animal is the Albatross, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Albatr is ranked 280^th in the world and 1^st in Imperium of the four winds for Most Primitive, scoring 432 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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