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The Republic of Scheming Bastet is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 9.898 billion Scheming Bastetians 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 medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Social Policy, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.9%.

The Scheming Bastetian economy, worth 464 trillion guilders a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 46,928 guilders, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases, ghost regiments exist only on paper, everyone apparently sends Leader hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, and corporations are either above the law or corrupting it. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Scheming Bastet's national animal is the kiwi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Scheming Bastet is ranked 214,011^th in the world and 45^th in Middle Earth for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 262.8 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.