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The Socialist State of Blargoblarg

“Workers of the world, unite!”

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The Socialist State of Blargoblarg is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by General Secretary Kyulen with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 29.845 billion Blargoblargers 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amaretto. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Blargoblarger economy, worth a remarkable 8,455 trillion Bits 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 Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 amazing 283,320 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Workers have seized control of the economy, vacationers and business travelers are often warned that they may lose the right to vote if they spend too much time overseas, the only things Blargoblargers vote on are cutest Alicorn competitions, and jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blargoblarg's national animal is the Alicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Blargoblarg is ranked 18,694^th in the world and 1^st in Zeesh for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,393.99 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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