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The Empire of Bobzonko is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kuningaz Sheldor LXIX with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory vegetarianism, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 16.415 billion Bobzonkans 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grip City. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bobzonkoan economy, worth a remarkable 2,295 trillion Zongs 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 139,849 Zongs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Bobzonkoan delegation to the World Assembly is having a hard time convincing people that international law will "pay for itself somehow...", security reviews double as political propaganda, the government is dead set on letting people rest in peace, and defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bobzonko's national animal is the Marko, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Bing Bong Theorem.

Bobzonko is ranked 23,081^st in the world and 1^st in Scootnum for Most Cultured, scoring 84 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.