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The State of Sajafry is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 36.466 billion Sajafryians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Sajafryian economy, worth a remarkable 1,019 trillion betales 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 Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is 27,967 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, and Sajafry has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sajafry's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sajafry is ranked 122,288^th in the world and 71^st in State for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.