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The Democratic Republic of Ogiastan

“Aberriaren Alde.”

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The Democratic Republic of Ogiastan is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Igor Ahuntza with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.068 billion Ogias 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hatskala. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.1%.

The all-consuming Ogiastani economy, worth 333 trillion Ogiastani Zatias 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 impressive 161,230 Ogiastani Zatias, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 526,161 per year while the poor average 37,165, a ratio of 14.2 to 1.

The police double as repo men, government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, nuclear physics is the most popular course at university, and Ogias caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ogiastan's national animal is the Bison, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ahuntza's Cult of Personality.

Ogiastan is ranked 330,988^th in the world and 251^st in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Most Pacifist, with 4.25 cheeks turned per day.

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