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The Holy Empire of Anne Applebaum

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The Holy Empire of Anne Applebaum is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 11.913 billion Anne Applebaumians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 37.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Anne Applebaumian economy, worth 846 trillion Platinums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,050 Platinums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Community theaters are known for their bawdy renditions of 'Springtime for Leader', the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, and citizens have never heard foreign radio. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anne Applebaum's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Anne Applebaum is ranked 93,722^nd in the world and 20^th in The Gallery for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.67 law-abiding acts per hour.

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