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The Republic of Prodstrazka is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Viscen with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.211 billion Prodstrazkans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haafingar. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Prodstrazkan economy, worth a remarkable 1,193 trillion Eironas a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,923 Eironas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, and citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prodstrazka's national animal is the Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Prodstrazka is ranked 201,646^th in the world and 148^th in Fifth Empire for Most Extreme, scoring 15.02 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.