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The Republic of New Covina

“If Kastle likes, Kastle buys”

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The Republic of New Covina is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Kastle with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 17.059 billion New Covinans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Los Angeles. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Covinan economy, worth a remarkable 2,384 trillion Kastle's Monies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,774 Kastle's Monies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler', convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing, copyright laws have been abolished, and the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Covina's national animal is the Utopiary, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

New Covina is ranked 87,847^th in the world and 1^st in A Kitten Loving Fudge Based Democracy for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,382.93 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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