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The Greater Worker's Union of Spodehaven

“Harmony and Progress!”

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The Greater Worker's Union of Spodehaven is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Omnipotent Eye with a fair hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, state-planned economy, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.18 billion Spodists enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand Underground. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Spodish economy, worth a remarkable 6,208 trillion Yargons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 256,774 Yargons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares, atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers. Crime is totally unknown. Spodehaven's national animal is the Walking Eye, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Spodeism.

Spodehaven is ranked 284,127^th in the world and 10,968^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.59 kickbacks per hour.

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