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The Republic of Madballerinas

“Leotard and pointe shoes or else”

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The Republic of Madballerinas is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Victoria Page with a fair hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 30.788 billion Madballerinas enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tutu. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient corps economy, worth a remarkable 9,488 trillion red shoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 308,187 red shoes, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

Soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries, it's always rabbit season, and friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Madballerinas's national animal is the mouse, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Madballerinas is ranked 290,191^st in the world and 1^st in Plie for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -35.44 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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