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The Republic of SHAKTISTHAN is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 883 million SHAKTISTHANians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of VISHWAKARMA. The average income tax rate is 44.2%.

The SHAKTISTHANian economy, worth 49.9 trillion RUPEES a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,510 RUPEES, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

The single fish caught by SHAKTISTHANian fishers last year is cited as evidence of SHAKTISTHAN's thriving fisheries, women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job, Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, and the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SHAKTISTHAN's national animal is the LION, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SHAKTISTHAN is ranked 271,971^st in the world and 66^th in India for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 367.79 on the Societal Mobility Rating.