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The Federation of Hinklestan is a huge, safe nation, notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 556 million Hinklestanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Herbertville. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Hinklestanian economy, worth 15.2 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 27,379 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The media seems excessively interested in what Leader is wearing this season, newspapers are celebrating Leader saving over a million cats from trees, a formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction, and therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hinklestan's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hinklestan is ranked 49,869^th in the world and 33^rd in The Wellspring for Most Extreme, scoring 31.68 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.