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“Equally Above All Else! LORANIA FTW!”

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The Armed Republic of Loranuclear is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.809 billion Loranians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The very strong Loranian economy, worth 756 trillion rubledollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 70,025 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 332,246 per year while the poor average 8,709, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Loranuclear's national animal is the hawk, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Loranuclear is ranked 164,257^th in the world and 8^th in ATOMIC for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 69.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.