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The People's Kingdom of Marvingia

“For King and Betriebsrat!”

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The People's Kingdom of Marvingia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Ernst Ludwig II with an even hand, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, sprawling nuclear power plants, and national health service. The hard-nosed population of 4.395 billion Marvingi are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strasbourg. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Marvingian economy, worth 496 trillion Marvingian Guldens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 112,874 Marvingian Guldens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength, X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low, citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, and only persecuted professionals need apply for asylum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marvingia's national animal is the Red Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marvingia is ranked 242,032^nd in the world and 759^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Primitive, scoring -129.96 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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