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The Republic of Marxstadt

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The Republic of Marxstadt is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 6.635 billion Marxstadtians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Industry, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense and International Aid aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Marxstadtian economy, worth a remarkable 1,969 trillion equalities a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology. 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 296,766 equalities, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts, animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands, terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and arrow loops, and sales of superhero insurance have skyrocketed after the government abandoned the police in favor of vigilantes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Marxstadt's national animal is the homo sapiens, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Marxstadt is ranked 195,345^th in the world and 5^th in Fuseishuu for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -3.16 on the Clooney Contribution Index.

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