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The People's Republic of Korikan

“Fall not to the hands of discrimination”

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The People's Republic of Korikan is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed population of 490 million Korikanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Polosand City. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Korikanian economy, worth 43.4 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 88,560 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military has gone fission for more funding, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Polosand City make great practice for foreign snipers, and the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Korikan's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Korikan is ranked 148,485^th in the world and 392^nd in Carcassonne for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 464.4 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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