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The Glasburg Archipelago of Socalist Republic Of Mercenaries

“𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔯, ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫”

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The Glasburg Archipelago of Socalist Republic Of Mercenaries is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Karl von Larenz with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, feral children, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.418 billion Stratusians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beisinghausen. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stratusian economy, worth 398 trillion Mercenaresian Monetary Units 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, 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 impressive 116,543 Mercenaresian Monetary Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, and kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socalist Republic Of Mercenaries's national animal is the Stratusian Mud Prawn, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans, and its national religion is Karl von Larenz Thought.

Socalist Republic Of Mercenaries is ranked 229,759^th in the world and 31^st in The Outer Rim for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.15 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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