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The Dictatorship of Piter de Vries

“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion”

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The Dictatorship of Piter de Vries is a massive, pleasant nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.518 billion Piter de Vriesians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 9.9%.

The strong Piter de Vriesian economy, worth 250 trillion Powers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 55,494 Powers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, the last thing Piter de Vriesian soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them, every politician claims to be at least 1% Native Piter de Vriesian, and a major religion has been named as Piter de Vries's national religion. Crime is relatively low. Piter de Vries's national animal is the Cruelty, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Piter de Vries is ranked 135,630^th in the world and 10^th in Known Universe for Safest, scoring 65.77 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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