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The Holy Empire of Apostolites

“All Serve Holy Emperor”

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The Holy Empire of Apostolites is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Holy Emperor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, compulsory vegetarianism, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.917 billion Apostolites are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Megas Solomon. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Apostolitesian economy, worth an astonishing 11,242 trillion ichthys 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 a breathtaking 664,591 ichthys, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Apostolites after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, police wait behind troop deployments in order to shoot deserters, school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education, and government officials who do an offal job get smoked. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Apostolites's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Holy Emperor's Word.

Apostolites is ranked 174,307^th in the world and 2^nd in Holy Imperial Hegemony for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 94.62 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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