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The Federal Republic of Clarkstan

“Together we are stronger,divided we are weak.”

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The Federal Republic of Clarkstan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Vyaceslav Kanaev with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, public floggings, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 21.902 billion Clarkstanians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Layton. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Clarkstanian economy, worth an astonishing 11,434 trillion Clarkstan marks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 522,078 Clarkstan marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, and the military will start wars with other nations on a lark. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clarkstan's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christianity.

Clarkstan is ranked 338,035^th in the world and 1,336^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Pacifist, with 2.3 cheeks turned per day.

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