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The Holy Empire of BeNjAmInLaNdIa is a massive, safe nation, ruled by STRGINDPNDTBLCKWMN with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, smutty television, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed population of 3.153 billion BeNjAmInLaNdIans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Budne. The average income tax rate is 57.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming BeNjAmInLaNdIan economy, worth 319 trillion Benjamins 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 101,372 Benjamins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young criminals are told they'll go to bed without supper if they do it again, religious education is a new government priority, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. BeNjAmInLaNdIa's national animal is the Blobfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is K'SAWSNT RL AND OBMA RND R CNTRY.

BeNjAmInLaNdIa is ranked 241,649^th in the world and 3,823^rd in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -3.16 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.