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The Nigerian Empire of New Ryansville

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The Nigerian Empire of New Ryansville is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Empress Charlotte with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 7.912 billion New Ryansvilleans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lagos. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Ryansvillean economy, worth a remarkable 2,791 trillion Nigerian dollars 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 amazing 352,807 Nigerian dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies, the little guy plays a big role in New Ryansvillean politics, and students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Ryansville's national animal is the West African Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Nigeria.

New Ryansville is ranked 289,165^th in the world and 125^th in Institute of Cellulose for Nicest Citizens, with 0.28 average smiles per day.

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