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The Padoru of Petronella

“You Can't Stop Me!”

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The Padoru of Petronella is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2 billion Petronellans 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova. The average income tax rate is 62.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Petronellan economy, worth 185 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,521 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, and the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronella's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Petronella is ranked 61,387^th in the world and 44^th in Vibonia for Largest Governments, scoring 20.52 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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