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The Flatulent Bleatings of Pompous Windbags

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The Flatulent Bleatings of Pompous Windbags is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Maximilian III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 42.91 billion Windbags are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mintaka. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pompous Windbagsian economy, worth an astonishing 14,478 trillion bones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 337,408 bones, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,588,606 per year while the poor average 11,862, a ratio of 218 to 1.

Postcards from Pompous Windbagsian driving test centres are popular souvenirs, practically perfect royal toddlers tend to say "regrettably not at this juncture" rather than "no", the nation has declared war on all passing comets, and the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Pompous Windbags's national animal is the kestrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.

Pompous Windbags is ranked 573^rd in the world and 2^nd in Free States of Gaia for Safest, scoring 185.24 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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