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The Grand Duchy of Penginstan is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Emporer Kowalski with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.599 billion Pengistanians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tuangala. The average income tax rate is 60.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Pengistanian economy, worth 125 trillion Pengistani Marks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,356 Pengistani Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A surprising number of police officers have been arrested for Penguin sacrifices, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, and surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Penginstan's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Penguinism.

Penginstan is ranked 70,784^th in the world and 124^th in Talonia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 60.82 Effective Tax Rate.