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The Foínix Aftokratoría of Megistos

“I shop so much I can speak Italian”

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The Foínix Aftokratoría of Megistos is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mysterious Idol with a fair hand, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, otherworldly petting zoo, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 3.833 billion Mᴇgistians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of La Paix. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mᴇgistia economy, worth 895 trillion Frᴇies 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 an amazing 233,685 Frᴇies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, the new national anthem passes the Turing Test, and tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens. Crime is totally unknown. Megistos's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Phoenixi Orthodox.

Megistos is ranked 10,675^th in the world and 195^th in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,784.94 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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