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The Queen's State of Kratzer Islands

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The Queen's State of Kratzer Islands is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 21.287 billion Kratzer Islandsians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Kratzer Islandsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,008 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,383 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", all beauty contests have been banned, the study of medicine is popular throughout Kratzer Islands, and toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kratzer Islands's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kratzer Islands is ranked 113,258^th in the world and 149^th in Ancient Lands for Most Corrupt Governments, with 9.04 kickbacks per hour.

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