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The Pink Artsy Angel of Bendicion is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Mary Jane Reinaldi 👸 with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, smutty television, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 27.709 billion Bendians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand Kaliptzy Bendianii 🌆. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bendian economy, worth an astonishing 17,102 trillion 💲 Doleres a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 617,225 💲 Doleres, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Universities spend millions cultivating ivy on their buildings, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, the 💲 Dolere is newly gilt in trust, and praying at the office can see you terminated for napping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bendicion's national animal is the Bald Eagle🦅, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity ✝️.

Bendicion is ranked 922^nd in the world and 17^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,088.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.