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“He who kisses the dragon, kisses death”

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The Rogue Nation of SpittaanVenam is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 411 million SpittaanVenamese are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 48.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped SpittaanVenamian economy, worth 11.9 trillion Komodos a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,963 Komodos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, and SpittaanVenam has designated SpittaanVenam City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SpittaanVenam's national animal is the Komodo Dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SpittaanVenam is ranked 124,324^th in the world and 2,073^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,557.89 on the Hickory Productivity Index.