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The Kingdom of Iggleboggle

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The Kingdom of Iggleboggle is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Arvey Thomas with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, parental licensing program, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.138 billion Iggleboggleans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, 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 Northern Iggleboggle. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Igglebogglean economy, worth 465 trillion Iggle Bounces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 148,313 Iggle Bounces, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, dining out often involves Seals on the plate no matter what you order, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, and Igglebogglean athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iggleboggle's national animal is the Seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Violet.

Iggleboggle is ranked 120,748^th in the world and 580^th in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,674 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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