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The Holy Empire of Arms of the Father

“The Father holds all.”

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The Holy Empire of Arms of the Father is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 447 million Hands of the Father 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Heart. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Father's Hand economy, worth 29.5 trillion Alms 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. Average income is 66,079 Alms, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, and conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arms of the Father's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arms of the Father is ranked 14,946^th in the world and 8^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Most Pacifist, with 122.79 cheeks turned per day.

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