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The Wooded Land of Konar

“We are the forest, and the forest are we.”

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The Wooded Land of Konar is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Bluie with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, anti-smoking policies, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.512 billion Konarians 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.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emswe. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Konarian economy, worth a remarkable 2,303 trillion chukas a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,539 chukas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, 90% of active duty KAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, army rations are served on silver platters, and student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned tersikball fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Konar's national animal is the tersik, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Konar is ranked 10,342^nd in the world and 616^th in Balder for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,557.35 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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