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The Holy Empire of Muscle

“We are the world; no, no, very no, we are the BROTHERS!”

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The Holy Empire of Muscle is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Holy Emperor Atrocious Aniki with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 24.622 billion Anikis are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Industry, and Healthcare also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flexopolis. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Musclean economy, worth a remarkable 3,548 trillion Proteins a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 144,121 Proteins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas, cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Muscle's national animal is the Aniki, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Muscle Worship.

Muscle is ranked 16,926^th in the world and 1^st in aaa for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,144.03 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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