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The Pink holy Christmas of K 3 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an iron fist, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, restrictive gun laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.223 billion K 3s are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Law & Order and Healthcare also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The frighteningly efficient K 3ian economy, worth 342 trillion candy cane gold bars 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Gambling, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. 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 106,353 candy cane gold bars, with the richest citizens earning 7.8 times as much as the poorest.

Patriotic citizens chant "there's only one K 3" at foreigners, according to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color, the government is spending billions of candy cane gold bars on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist, and geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. K 3's national animal is the bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Athyism.

K 3 is ranked 74,244^th in the world and 4^th in Freyaria for Most Developed, scoring 69.08 on the Human Development Index.