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The Protectorate of Calavaria

“Solar Death Rays...enough said”

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The Protectorate of Calavaria is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Royal Governor Lina Emin the First with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 14.855 billion Calavarians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calamari City. The average income tax rate is 51.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Calavarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,539 trillion Bits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 103,620 Bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tourists are forbidden to enter Native Calavarian lands, bris parties are all the rage, weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies, and voting is compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calavaria's national animal is the Flying Tein, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Protestant Christianity.

Calavaria is ranked 66,938^th in the world and 102^nd in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 50,462.99 Standard Monetary Units.

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