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The United States of Flomonga is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chancellor Rich Hangleglider with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 3.728 billion Flomongans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hombolica. The average income tax rate is 42.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Flomongan economy, worth 466 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 125,244 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Brasilistanis face layers of paperwork in a different language just to visit a doctor, atheists on vacation find Catholicism's scriptures make useful doorstops, the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards, and Deer with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flomonga's national animal is the Deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Flomonga is ranked 102,722^nd in the world and 161^st in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,400.14 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.