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The Totally Naked Fraternity of Retired WerePenguins

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The Totally Naked Fraternity of Retired WerePenguins is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Navigator Christopher Earl Gray with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, digital currency, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 39.321 billion WerePenguins have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dumont D Urville. The average income tax rate is 1.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient WerePenguinian economy, worth a remarkable 9,138 trillion Tokens a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 232,411 Tokens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Criminals are put to death while cuddling their favourite teddy bear, fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, gun owners are skilled at everything except shooting, and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Retired WerePenguins's national animal is the tourist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of the Naked Now.

Retired WerePenguins is ranked 1,614^th in the world and 3^rd in Antarctic Oasis for Largest Populations, with 39.3 billion capita.

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