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The Republic of Belleny Ven

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The Republic of Belleny Ven is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, disturbing lack of elderly people, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.383 billion Belleny Venians 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 medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.7%.

The powerhouse Belleny Venian economy, worth 170 trillion pesos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 71,684 pesos, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 523,548 per year while the poor average 3,043, a ratio of 172 to 1.

It is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, the government struggles to keep up with the endless list of petrol disasters, schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts, and funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience. Crime is pervasive. Belleny Ven's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Belleny Ven is ranked 102,909^th in the world and 281^st in the Plains of Perdition for Most Patriotic, with 17.53 flags saluted per person per day.

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