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The Empire of Pullenstein

“Death before dishonour!”

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The Empire of Pullenstein is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 47.449 billion Pullensteinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The tiny, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Education, although Defense, Healthcare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pullenstein City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Pullensteinian economy, worth an astonishing 17,700 trillion marks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 373,034 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, Leader has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and protests are prohibited from blocking traffic. Crime is totally unknown. Pullenstein's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pullenstein is ranked 75,668^th in the world and 3,680^th in Lazarus for Most Authoritarian, with 1,239.39 milliStalins.

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