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The Lovable Larrikin of Istillian

“Little by little, one travels far.”

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The Lovable Larrikin of Istillian is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Fornost Erain with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.235 billion Istillian's are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Irminsul. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Istillian economy, worth a remarkable 3,125 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 192,533 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,743,234 per year while the poor average 2,518, a ratio of 692 to 1.

A popular Istillian saying is 'wishing upon a fallen jet engine', it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away", citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account, and you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule Istillian but at least the trains run on time. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Istillian's national animal is the Thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Thybelieve.

Istillian is ranked 90,514^th in the world and 511^th in Europeia for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 286.6 on the Clooney Contribution Index.

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