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The Sultanate of Puppet State 348 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 4.024 billion Puppet State 348ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense, Administration, and Welfare are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 44.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Puppet State 348ian economy, worth 39.5 trillion bitcoins 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 Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. 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 9,807 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Puppet State 348ian weed picker are way up, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, and euthanasia is legal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puppet State 348's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Puppet State 348 is ranked 251,160^th in the world and 57^th in Silly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.07 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.