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The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos

“Gunshots, Explosions, And Turmoil! Let’s All GET To It!”

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The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, unlimited-speed roads, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 851 million Zandosians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandian. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 111 trillion Zandollas 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 impressive 131,364 Zandollas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 379,895 per year while the poor average 36,017, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

City sidewalks are crowded with overweight people, the government has solemnly sworn not to look up other nations' internet browsing history if the favor is returned, a recent political speech drew the ire of nerds everywhere after the speaker claimed that Darth Vader was Harry Potter's father, and exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zandos's national animal is the D U C C, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zandos is ranked 280,974^th in the world and 6,158^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5.38 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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