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The 🐀🥜 of Crumstain is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Eagle Cockchafer with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, anti-smoking policies, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 27.479 billion Crumstainians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crumstainia. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Crumstainian economy, worth a remarkable 3,022 trillion NorBucks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 109,995 NorBucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams, all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, and politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crumstain's national animal is the Northern Steed, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Malkbaconne.

Crumstain is ranked 309,342^nd in the world and 19^th in International Northwestern Union for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 3,739.83 Standard Monetary Units.