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The Republic of Birch 164

“We exist in a perpetual state.”

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The Republic of Birch 164 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, infamous sell-swords, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.041 billion Birch 164ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 47.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Birch 164ian economy, worth 176 trillion leaves 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 35,054 leaves, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', Birch 164 has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors, and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birch 164's national animal is the tree, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Birch 164 is ranked 141,749^th in the world and 1,077^th in Primitiveness for Largest Governments, scoring 13.6 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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