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The Federation of Shadow boxing Pickachu

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The Federation of Shadow boxing Pickachu is a very large, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 334 million Shadow boxing Pickachuans 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 20.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Shadow boxing Pickachuan economy, worth 14.7 trillion Thunderbolts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,132 Thunderbolts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation is compulsory, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and finders keepers is the law of the land. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shadow boxing Pickachu's national animal is the Pickachu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shadow boxing Pickachu is ranked 226,850^th in the world and 7^th in Pickachu Convention for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.