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The Republic of Personal Incredulity

“Everyone expects the Varanian Inquisition”

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The Republic of Personal Incredulity is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, ubiquitous missile silos, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.218 billion Personal Incredulityians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Personal Incredulityian economy, worth a remarkable 1,874 trillion Object Permanences a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 203,354 Object Permanences, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 613,733 per year while the poor average 52,496, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

All the playground's a stage for Personal Incredulityian schoolchildren, children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits, reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic, and being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Personal Incredulity's national animal is the Question Mark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Personal Incredulity is ranked 325,385^th in the world and 1,040^th in Eye for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 30.63 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.

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