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The Federation of Eskzlenct is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.008 billion Eskzlenctians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 56.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Eskzlenctian economy, worth 40.3 trillion pihyups a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,019 pihyups, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment, Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Eskzlenct, and rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes. Crime is well under control. Eskzlenct's national animal is the porcupine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eskzlenct is ranked 230,550^th in the world and 3,722^nd in The East Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 12.43 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.