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The Confederacy of Blechernwald

“The blood on our hands keeps yours clean”

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The Confederacy of Blechernwald is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.238 billion Walders 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Festungsburg. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Blechernwaldian economy, worth a remarkable 1,230 trillion Brassmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 169,954 Brassmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Blechernwaldian Navy, park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, graffiti graces every city's streets, and the only places to see Bears now are at local zoos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blechernwald's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blechernwald is ranked 288,607^th in the world and 5^th in Social Technocratic Union for Most Primitive, scoring -522.58 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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