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The Queendom of Saint Von Artemis

“Nous Allons Endurer”

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The Queendom of Saint Von Artemis is a large, safe nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, fear of technology, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 56 million Artemisians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.6%.

The strong Saint Von Artemisian economy, worth 3.50 trillion Praisis a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,444 Praisis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 182,957 per year while the poor average 16,810, a ratio of 10.9 to 1.

The weather in Saint Von Artemis City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, and delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Von Artemis's national animal is the Chartreux, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Von Artemis is ranked 149,815^th in the world and 753^rd in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 36,467.62 Standard Monetary Units.

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