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The Apostolic Commonwealth of New Luciannova is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lucian Pius Aurelius with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 13.355 billion New Luciannovans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Education, although Industry, Defense, and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Constantine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The frighteningly efficient New Luciannovan economy, worth a remarkable 5,089 trillion New Luciannovan Denarii a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 381,080 New Luciannovan Denarii, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,770,438 per year while the poor average 49,294, a ratio of 35.9 to 1.

The new cheese tax is colloquially known as "wheel welfare", women who display their ankles are shunned by society, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and school children declare that teachers "may confiscate our toys but they can never take our FREEDOM". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Luciannova's national animal is the Awesome Possum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

New Luciannova is ranked 1,655^th in the world and 6^th in Christians for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 8,791.51 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.