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The Republic of Small-minded Bastet

“Small-minded Bastet”

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The Republic of Small-minded Bastet is a massive, pleasant nation, renowned for its burgeoning cat population. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.893 billion Small-minded Bastetians 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 government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 10.6%.

The Small-minded Bastetian economy, worth 140 trillion debens a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 48,702 debens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime is relatively low. Small-minded Bastet's national animal is the cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Small-minded Bastet is ranked 156,494^th in the world and 3^rd in Leskintaia for Most Patriotic, with 8.45 flags saluted per person per day.