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The Holy Empire of Byzant

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The Holy Empire of Byzant is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Justinian and Theodora with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, lack of airports, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 41.819 billion Byzantians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constantinople. The average income tax rate is 4.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Byzantian economy, worth a remarkable 8,733 trillion bezants a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,833 bezants, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Private law firms are unheard of, foreign planes and migratory birds are shot down as spies, the army lures cannon fodder with promises of a college education, and the government seizes all major gold finds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Byzant's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Orthodoxy.

Byzant is ranked 25,087^th in the world and 663^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,307.29 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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