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The PS2 Puppet of Askatopia

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The PS2 Puppet of Askatopia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Executioner with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory vegetarianism, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.57 billion Disposables 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Spirituality and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Education are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Unyielding Cesspit Of Filth. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Disposable economy, worth a remarkable 5,562 trillion Nuclear Bombs 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, highly specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 409,900 Nuclear Bombs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety', the police are tightening their grip on alcohol smugglers, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, and missionaries learn the hard way that their piercing spiritual insights are no match for arrows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Askatopia's national animal is the Slug, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violetism.

Askatopia is ranked 4,099^th in the world and 135^th in the South Pacific for Nudest, with 1,201.25 Cheeks Per Square Mile.

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