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The Planet of Barbarella is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Black Queen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.406 billion Barbarellianos 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sogo. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Barbarellan economy, worth 404 trillion gold coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 118,889 gold coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, enemy governments seem especially interested in Barbarella's election cycle, citizens re-mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets, and they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Barbarella's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Love.

Barbarella is ranked 107,175^th in the world and 1,653^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,874.74 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.