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The Peoples Republic of Hansa Federation

“Another Day Another Doller”

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The Peoples Republic of Hansa Federation is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Big Francis with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.902 billion Emoes are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Administration, and Spirituality are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Lubeck. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Hansa Federationian economy, worth 392 trillion Crayons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,147 Crayons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 748,458 per year while the poor average 12,282, a ratio of 60.9 to 1.

Parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside, and Big Francis is refusing to make decisions until the Moon is out of Capricorn. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hansa Federation's national animal is the Burgers, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Emoism.

Hansa Federation is ranked 248,633^rd in the world and 274^th in Lands End for Most Income Equality, scoring 1.64 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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