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The Military Republic of Benese

“Fatherland-Honor-Duty”

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The Military Republic of Benese is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Agent Winbuntu with an iron fist, and renowned for its digital currency, anti-smoking policies, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.857 billion Beneseans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Industry, and Education also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Benese city. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Benesean economy, worth 276 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 148,768 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nations that kill a Benesean can expect a strongly worded letter, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, and historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Benese's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Judaism and Islam.

Benese is ranked 274,258^th in the world and 5,144^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.94 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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