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The Fiefdom of Kielegat

“Me zijn ut spoor bijster”

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The Fiefdom of Kielegat is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 26.794 billion Kielegatians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Kielegatian economy, worth 303 trillion leutmunts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 11,310 leutmunts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kielegat's national animal is the kiske, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kielegat is ranked 71,250^th in the world and 12^th in Nasicournia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 611.43 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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