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The Great of Hansa Federation

“MY PRINTER IS BROKEN!”

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The Great of Hansa Federation is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Big Francis with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, enforced nudity, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.095 billion Hansans 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 Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Lubeck. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Hansa Federationian economy, worth a remarkable 1,066 trillion Baldwin Bucks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 150,305 Baldwin Bucks, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Aristocratic family trees are beginning to resemble tumbleweeds, door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', billions of Baldwin Bucks are being blown on orbital weapons development, and spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home. Crime is all-pervasive, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Hansa Federation's national animal is the Printer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Printerism.

Hansa Federation is ranked 285,705^th in the world and 139^th in Lands End for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -266.1 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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