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The Purgatory of Snub is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The High Counsel with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.02 billion snubians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of dystopiantopia. The average income tax rate is 88.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Snubian economy, worth 154 trillion currencies a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 76,306 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Snub's national animal is the snub dishpenoid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is escapism.

Snub is ranked 68,069^th in the world and 4^th in magnae portas for Most Patriotic, with 24.49 flags saluted per person per day.