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The Isolationist Dictatorship of Belemnotia

“Either stay here, or stay away.”

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The Isolationist Dictatorship of Belemnotia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Doctor Lepays with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 27.019 billion Belemnotians 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 minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calamari. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.8%.

The all-consuming Belemnotian economy, worth a remarkable 3,550 trillion Belemnotian Cones a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 131,401 Belemnotian Cones, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,198,932 per year while the poor average 1,595, a ratio of 751 to 1.

It turns out that money can buy you happiness, children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-Belemnotian Cone charge on their phone bill, Max Barry finally has time for writing books after NationStates was recently outlawed, and blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Belemnotia's national animal is the belemnoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Belemnotia is ranked 45,700^th in the world and 37^th in New Europe for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,684.8 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

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