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The Holy Kingdom of South Pernambuco is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Dom Duarte II with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.821 billion Pernambucans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Petrolina. The average income tax rate is 93.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pernambucan economy, worth 593 trillion Reis a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,211 Reis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported, the government maintains that belief brings greater security than money or a roof, and theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. South Pernambuco's national animal is the Donkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Donkey Supremacy.

South Pernambuco is ranked 82,496^th in the world and 1,251^st in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,597.77 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.