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The Armed Republic of Hepanastat State

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The Armed Republic of Hepanastat State is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 299 million Hepanastat Stateans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 37.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Hepanastat Statean economy, worth 22.2 trillion Fireworks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 74,368 Fireworks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and anyone claiming to be a messiah is promptly put to death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hepanastat State's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hepanastat State is ranked 165,523^rd in the world and 314^th in The League for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 58.85 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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