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The Republic of Chicks and Ducks Rule is a large, cultured nation, renowned for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 123 million Chicks and Ducks Ruleans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Chicks and Ducks Rulean economy, worth 2.44 trillion Boars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 19,869 Boars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver, the government snoops on private internet connections, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chicks and Ducks Rule's national animal is the Boar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chicks and Ducks Rule is ranked 50,680^th in the world and 5^th in You Grabia for Most Cultured, scoring 72 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.