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The Holy Catholic Empire of Erstavik

“Gloria in Excelsis Deo”

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The Holy Catholic Empire of Erstavik is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Luke I with an even hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 5.301 billion Erstavikians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Burgsvik. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Erstavikian economy, worth 641 trillion Erstavik Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,036 Erstavik Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, the horniness of the great-horned Elephant is considered a national priority, religious leaders order congregants to love any neighbour who is just like themselves, and history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Erstavik's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Erstavik is ranked 15,542^nd in the world and 341^st in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.65 law-abiding acts per hour.

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