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The Federal Stratocracy of Arstungry

“Many for all, all for many”

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The Federal Stratocracy of Arstungry is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Federal Council with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, otherworldly petting zoo, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 12.307 billion Arstungrians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arstmark. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Arstungryian economy, worth a remarkable 2,453 trillion ARTS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 199,335 ARTS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arstungry's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arstungry is ranked 136,491^st in the world and 5,933^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 530.18 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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