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The Stealth Missile Corvette of Gnist

“Skjold-class corvette”

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The Stealth Missile Corvette of Gnist is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Kyorgia Kyosson-Vonimof with an even hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, state-planned economy, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 17.483 billion Gnistians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oslo. The average income tax rate is 33.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Gnistian economy, worth 967 trillion Kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 55,332 Kroner, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, Kyorgia Kyosson-Vonimof's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht, and elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gnist's national animal is the Elk, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Den Norske Kirke.

Gnist is ranked 49,202^nd in the world and 4^th in Kyorgia puppet storage for Lowest Crime Rates, with 74.4 law-abiding acts per hour.

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