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The Holy Empire of Dead Cow

“Pray to the Cow Gods or DIE”

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The Holy Empire of Dead Cow is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory vegetarianism, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 735 million Undead Cows 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.3%.

The strong Dead Cowian economy, worth 36.7 trillion Bones of dead cows a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Gambling and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,950 Bones of dead cows, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

Thieves are flogged in public for their crimes, old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore, the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness, and all weapon research has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Dead Cow's national animal is the A dead cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Dead Cow is ranked 23,178^th in the world and 15^th in Union of Christian Nations for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 54.66 Whatever.

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