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The Artificially Blonde of Monroevia

“Le stelle vivono nei cieli”

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The Artificially Blonde of Monroevia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Darryl Francis Zanuck with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.704 billion Monroevians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hollywood. The average income tax rate is 74.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Monroevian economy, worth a remarkable 1,010 trillion Diamonds 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. 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 impressive 150,796 Diamonds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic, nine out of ten citizens of Monroevia answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation, relationship guidance consists of "lie back and think of Monroevia", and Monroevian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Darryl Francis Zanuck. Crime is totally unknown. Monroevia's national animal is the Dimaggio, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Monroevia is ranked 50,662^nd in the world and 397^th in the West Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 38.78 kickbacks per hour.

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