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The Principality of Pickachuu is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 344 million Pickachuuans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 43.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Pickachuuan economy, worth 12.6 trillion Thunderbolts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 36,582 Thunderbolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, and foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pickachuu's national animal is the Pickachu, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Pickachuu is ranked 186,885^th in the world and 5^th in Pickachu Convention for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 35.83 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.