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The Most Serene Kingdom of Arstotskiano

“All hail to the king!”

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The Most Serene Kingdom of Arstotskiano is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by King Charles I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.81 billion Arstotskianians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thossaliniki. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Arstotskianian economy, worth 383 trillion Arstotskoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 212,106 Arstotskoins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,738,958 per year while the poor average 5,487, a ratio of 316 to 1.

Jaywalkers are condemned to lives of poverty for their heinous crimes, school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, putting a mustache on a banknote is considered defacing a national monument, and economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arstotskiano's national animal is the Eurasian Brown Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Arstotskiano is ranked 273,067^th in the world and 286^th in Lands End for Most Income Equality, scoring 0.32 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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