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The Republic of Jingdood

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

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The Republic of Jingdood is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Voba with a fair hand, and renowned for its public floggings, anti-smoking policies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 31.325 billion Jingdoodics love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arqua. The average income tax rate is 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jingdoodian economy, worth a remarkable 3,293 trillion Gulls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 105,147 Gulls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, third world countries are rich in "I Love Arqua" t-shirts, and small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome. Crime is pervasive. Jingdood's national animal is the Raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Jingdood is ranked 89,183^rd in the world and 15^th in The Lexicon for Largest Black Market, with 646 billion Standard Monetary Units.

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