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The Federal Republic of Burikinia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Anto Kertajaya with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.917 billion Burikinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Burik City. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Burikinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,389 trillion Bruns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 218,891 Bruns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate, exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime is totally unknown. Burikinia's national animal is the Azure Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Islam.

Burikinia is ranked 230,064^th in the world and 9,424^th in Lazarus for Most Extreme, scoring 12.49 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.