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The Esoteric Order of Renea

“FUTILE BREAD MACHINE!!!”

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The Esoteric Order of Renea is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Fuwalafuwalu with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 9.003 billion Reneans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Katikatiyama. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Renean economy, worth a remarkable 4,441 trillion Yōmyons 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 an amazing 493,347 Yōmyons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,488,943 per year while the poor average 127,359, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

Pedants defending Fuwalafuwalu observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", sex changes are routinely performed at Renea's hospitals, and water fights now end with thousands dead. Crime is totally unknown. Renea's national animal is the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is annoyingly cute insults.

Renea is ranked 13,206^th in the world and 923^rd in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 96.27 law-abiding acts per hour.

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