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The Exiled Council of Great Bulkaran is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Exiled Council of Bulkaran with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, avant-garde cinema, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.832 billion Bulkularians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kremlin Strip. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Great Bulkaranian economy, worth 182 trillion rubles a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 64,313 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Mournful opera fans place bouquets of roses at a 3000 capacity parking lot, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Great Bulkaran, clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies, and frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Bulkaran's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Santanism.

Great Bulkaran is ranked 77,100^th in the world and 66^th in Hell for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.86 law-abiding acts per hour.