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The Kingdom of Porvilho

“Opa virei porvilho”

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The Kingdom of Porvilho is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The democratic population of 972 million Porvilhianos hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Morro do Bola Peixe. The average income tax rate is 53.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Porvilhiana economy, worth 40.4 trillion Octocoins 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Gambling. 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 41,567 Octocoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People make a career out of medical voyeurism, male tourists tend to be fearful of Porvilho's deadly femme fatales, the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers, and only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Leader on Porvilho's coulrophobia epidemic. Crime is almost non-existent. Porvilho's national animal is the polvo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Porvilho is ranked 86,439^th in the world and 50^th in Lands End for Least Corrupt Governments, with 93.6 percentage of bribes refused.

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