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The Holy Empire of Passover is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 317 million matzot are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Red Sea. The average income tax rate is 26.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped paschal economy, worth 11.6 trillion haggadahs 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Basket Weaving, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 36,675 haggadahs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, commemoration of the Great Seinfeld War costs almost as much as the war itself, internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be, and the average video game can be completed over lunch break. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Passover's national animal is the lamb.

Passover is ranked 243,175^th in the world and 31^st in Seinfeld for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.35 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.