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The Republic of Coriolanus Snow is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 8.709 billion Coriolanus Snowians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 53.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Coriolanus Snowian economy, worth 727 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 83,489 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', the urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban, and diaper-wrapped shawarma is a fan-favorite. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coriolanus Snow's national animal is the Winged Lion.

Coriolanus Snow is ranked 38,328^th in the world and 3^rd in Byss for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,327.13 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.