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The Canzhou Republic of Karatol-Advenra is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Emperor Xi Jinping with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, state-planned economy, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 12.331 billion Canzhous are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hachenzhi. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Canzhounese economy, worth a remarkable 3,332 trillion Canzhou Patacas 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 270,258 Canzhou Patacas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Canzhounese watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, all you have to do is pray to get into Karatol-Advenra, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, and Supreme Emperor Xi Jinping's reputation is hard as nails. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karatol-Advenra's national animal is the Cool bird I usually see at my terrace, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Sobackism.

Karatol-Advenra is ranked 18,609^th in the world and 383^rd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 6,201.84 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.