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The Commonwealth Minutemen of Ardentus

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The Commonwealth Minutemen of Ardentus is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Harrison Kane with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 14.683 billion Ardentians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Castle. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ardentusian economy, worth a remarkable 2,284 trillion Caps 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 155,598 Caps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, where there's smoke there's the Ardentusian Forestry Department, and the government is avowedly secular. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ardentus's national animal is the Radstag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atomism.

Ardentus is ranked 274,002^nd in the world and 57^th in The Fallout Wasteland for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.8 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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