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The Grand Empire of the Species of Mangoville is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor-King Ducky with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 7.77 billion Mangovilleans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mangoville city or Sesaurius. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mangovillian economy, worth a remarkable 1,661 trillion Mangoes 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 black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 an amazing 213,881 Mangoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again, residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low, and the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits. Crime is totally unknown. Mangoville's national animal is the T rex, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mango-Catholism.

Mangoville is ranked 167,751^st in the world and 177^th in Conch Kingdom for Most Extreme, scoring 17.66 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.