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The Siamese Kingdom of Astarina

“สพฺเพสํ สงฺฆภูตานํ สามคฺคี วุฑฺฒิ สาธิกา”

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The Siamese Kingdom of Astarina is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Rama IX with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, infamous sell-swords, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 18.851 billion Siamese hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Krung Thep. The average income tax rate is 18.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Siamese economy, worth a remarkable 3,645 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 193,367 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Siamese politicians, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, and increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Astarina's national animal is the elephant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Theravada Buddhism.

Astarina is ranked 282,837^th in the world and 289^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -14.83 on the Clooney Contribution Index.

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