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The Königreich of Brunnenland is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Friedrich III with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.942 billion Brunnench are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wien. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.7%.

The strong Brunnench economy, worth 125 trillion Brunnenmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is 64,712 Brunnenmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 228,155 per year while the poor average 13,280, a ratio of 17.2 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, Brunnenland has designated Wien as its capital city, Friedrich III has just been declared ruler of Brunnenland in an international press conference, and Roman Catholicism has been named as Brunnenland's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Brunnenland's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Brunnenland is ranked 57,278^th in the world and 1^st in GREATER AUSTRIA for Fattest Citizens, with 13.21 Obesity Rate.