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The Holy Empire of An Clar

“Worship the Banner or be destroyed!”

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The Holy Empire of An Clar is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Gaius Melkor with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, otherworldly petting zoo, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 36.482 billion Clarians 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 enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Inis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Clarian economy, worth a remarkable 5,560 trillion banner yoyoes 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 mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 152,430 banner yoyoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it, purported secret military bases are dismissed by Gaius Melkor to be highly-advanced toilet factories, rumor has it that Gaius Melkor has won three lotteries in a row, and typing Gaius Melkor's name into a search engine always gives zero matches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. An Clar's national animal is the magpie, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Melkorianism.

An Clar is ranked 269^th in the world and 5^th in Europe for Lowest Crime Rates, with 229.44 law-abiding acts per hour.

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