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The Celestial Empire of Shanyang

“Integrate the Tributary and Extend the Prosperity.”

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The Celestial Empire of Shanyang is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Huangdi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.003 billion Celestials 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 prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Industry are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shanyang. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Shanyangian economy, worth a remarkable 6,346 trillion Nakfas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 373,272 Nakfas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,194,829 per year while the poor average 88,520, a ratio of 13.5 to 1.

Street cleaners are noticeably glum during jubilee celebrations, royals are always ready with their diamond-encrusted toilet plungers in case a royal flush doesn't work, at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold, and the line of royal succession just experienced a hardware interrupt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shanyang's national animal is the Heavenly Catfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Tianism.

Shanyang is ranked 1,771^st in the world and 7^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 13,701.47 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.

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