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The Republic of Junigasterndy is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 6.053 billion Junigasterndyians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 40.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Junigasterndyian economy, worth 261 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,243 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career, the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press, Leader's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide, and election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Junigasterndy's national animal is the parrot.

Junigasterndy is ranked 183,045^th in the world and 26^th in Lassa for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 68.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.