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The Theocracy of Quistonix is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, avowedly heterosexual populace, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 404 million Quistonixians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 82.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Quistonixian economy, worth 19.5 trillion alms a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 48,266 alms, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, and one-word headlines are the norm in Quistonixian newspapers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quistonix's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quistonix is ranked 113,244^th in the world and 1,927^th in eta for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,380.61 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.