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The Republic of Houroububarsderd

“God, Homeland, Liberty”

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The Republic of Houroububarsderd is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 10.239 billion Houroububarsderdians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 40.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Houroububarsderdian economy, worth 278 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,224 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, and commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Houroububarsderd's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Houroububarsderd is ranked 101,704^th in the world and 2,495^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Primitive, scoring -18.17 on the Scary Big Number Scale.