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The Most Serene Republic of Piehu is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jacobin Bonaparte with an even hand, and notable for its vat-grown people, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 8.074 billion Piehuans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nihil City. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Piehuan economy, worth a remarkable 5,683 trillion Piehuan Dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 a breathtaking 703,906 Piehuan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Warfare increasingly resembles a video game, 90% of active duty PAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', and weekends are spent tilting at windmills. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Piehu's national animal is the Piehuan Peacock, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Piehu is ranked 272,457^th in the world and 266^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 47.56 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.