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The Inactive Flock of New Birblands is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Birbrul with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 14.181 billion birbs are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Healthcare, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Birblin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.8%.

The frighteningly efficient birblandic economy, worth a remarkable 1,609 trillion birbseeds 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. 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 113,475 birbseeds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 320,316 per year while the poor average 32,179, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Adultery has been made a capital offence, molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public, a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world, and flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Birblands's national animal is the birb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Chirpism.

New Birblands is ranked 77,332^nd in the world and 1,037^th in The East Pacific for Most Authoritarian, with 1,212.35 milliStalins.