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The Republic of Rocker pickachu is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The democratic, devout population of 352 million Rocker pickachuans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 36.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Rocker pickachuan economy, worth 11.8 trillion Thunderbolts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 33,566 Thunderbolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is proudly free of crabs, genetic researchers have been expelled, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, and it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rocker pickachu's national animal is the Pickachu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rocker pickachu is ranked 133,068^th in the world and 2^nd in Pickachu Convention for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 515.22 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.