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The Hegemony of Monarche

“Progress, not perfection”

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The Hegemony of Monarche is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Magnus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.552 billion Montiri 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 prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leviathan. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Monarche economy, worth 475 trillion Aurums a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 186,327 Aurums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Military spending recently hit a new high, organ donation is compulsory, it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them, and ill and injured visitors in Monarche have to walk it off until they return home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monarche's national animal is the Fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ascensionism.

Monarche is ranked 230,400^th in the world and 109^th in Isle Of Wooloo Kingdom for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -8.91 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

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