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The Republic of Ovtichenko is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Ismail Golovanov with an iron fist, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The cynical population of 2.296 billion Ovtichenkoans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dyyar. The average income tax rate is 60.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ovtichenkoan economy, worth 68.7 trillion rubles a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,902 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens brought into court for parking violations are never heard from again, private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit, and relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ovtichenko's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bavoskianism.

Ovtichenko is ranked 76,035^th in the world and 7^th in The DankLeft Commune for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.