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The Completely Failed State of Angbhand

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The Completely Failed State of Angbhand is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Endymion with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.89 billion Angbhandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sylvania. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Angbhandian economy, worth an astonishing 12,872 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 a breathtaking 762,135 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, and minority children find the right answer in school tests is always the most insulting one. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Angbhand's national animal is the worg, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Angbhand is ranked 291,034^th in the world and 6,891^st in the Rejected Realms for Safest, scoring 1.95 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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