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The Pataphysical Mothman of Nova Vandalia

“Taking seriously the business of taking nothing serious”

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The Pataphysical Mothman of Nova Vandalia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by George Tirebiter with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.645 billion Velociraptors are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a Spandex Factory. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The very strong Funky economy, worth 231 trillion socks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 87,339 socks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cities in Nova Vandalia declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, smoking is banned in public areas, passionate nomination battles are often as intense as general elections, and referenda are held for every conceivable government action. Crime is totally unknown. Nova Vandalia's national animal is the Yam, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Tickling of Strangers.

Nova Vandalia is ranked 11,993^rd in the world and 11^th in Karma for Most Armed, with 8.07 Weapons Per Person.

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