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The Holy Empire of North Wonscia is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 456 million Wonscians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novi. The average income tax rate is 48.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Wonscian economy, worth 29.6 trillion Wonis a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 64,883 Wonis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, and top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Wonscia's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

North Wonscia is ranked 103,437^th in the world and 223^rd in Council of Asia for Most Primitive, scoring -10.72 on the Scary Big Number Scale.