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The Republic of Espiankiptonordia

“Twirling Toward Freedom”

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The Republic of Espiankiptonordia is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 9.64 billion Espiankiptonordians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 20.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Espiankiptonordian economy, worth 233 trillion francs a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,222 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Edutainment video games are taking Espiankiptonordia's students to the next level, muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', and foreign lack of enthusiasm for Espiankiptonordian nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Espiankiptonordia's national animal is the wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Espiankiptonordia is ranked 267,694^th in the world and 9,679^th in Osiris for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.94 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.