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The Ricky Spanish of Shibutani

“I Want an Easter Egg”

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The Ricky Spanish of Shibutani is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Sir Daniel with an even hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 5.36 billion Shibutanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of MAYA. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Shibutanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,001 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 373,468 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,414,246 per year while the poor average 68,541, a ratio of 20.6 to 1.

Agricultural science is the most competitive subject at universities, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, and grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shibutani's national animal is the Zombie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Church of the Cosmic Skull.

Shibutani is ranked 84,169^th in the world and 4,304^th in The North Pacific for Most Politically Free, scoring 66 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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