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The Heiliger Eisenrepublik of Kampf Empire is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Iron Chancellor Wolfgang Craggen with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.75 billion Imperial Citizens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neue Königsberg. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Kampf Empirean economy, worth a remarkable 5,180 trillion Imperial Marcks 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 amazing 351,191 Imperial Marcks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the Kampf Empirean military unleashed its biological weapons, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams, and billions of Imperial Marcks are being blown on orbital weapons development. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kampf Empire's national animal is the Kampfian Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Týrism.

Kampf Empire is ranked 306,520^th in the world and 4,975^th in The East Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 4,565.49 Standard Monetary Units.