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The Federation of Bing Boingia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 419 million Bing Boingians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.6%.

The strong Bing Boingian economy, worth 23.8 trillion SpongeBob Popsicles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 56,904 SpongeBob Popsicles, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

"Leader got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, solid-gold toilets are Bing Boingian prisons' least expensive furnishings, trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, and hospitals have poor data security but send lots of bodies to be encrypted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bing Boingia's national animal is the King Cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bing Boingia is ranked 263,866^th in the world and 1,192^nd in Europe for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.14 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.