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The Easter of Belambangan is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.099 billion Belanians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Belangian economy, worth a remarkable 3,924 trillion Candy Canes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 388,610 Candy Canes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,596,808 per year while the poor average 4,047, a ratio of 888 to 1.

The rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, caroling is considered a public disturbance, and fair play is a sportsbook refusing to pay what it owes. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Belambangan's national animal is the Reindeer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Hindu.

Belambangan is ranked 298,501^st in the world and 16^th in Indonesia Nusantara for Most Developed, scoring 44.88 on the Human Development Index.