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The Tasty States of Paprika Islands is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Ginger with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 21.952 billion Paprikashians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spice Rack. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Paprika Islandsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,550 trillion spices a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 70,636 spices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ginger is considering changing the Paprika Islandsian flag to one with more glitter, windows in Spice Rack don't have much of a view, children are afraid to go out at night due to the ubiquity of hardened jaywalkers, and wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paprika Islands's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is cooking.

Paprika Islands is ranked 200,232^nd in the world and 8^th in The Sweet Ubiquity for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 54.58 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.