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The Republic of Stess is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Odov I 🍹 with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 4.718 billion Stessians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 🌺City-state of Kandora🌃. The average income tax rate is 74.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Stessian economy, worth a remarkable 2,213 trillion franc🏛s a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 469,087 franc🏛s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Tax assessment offices double as polling stations, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, sex changes are routinely performed at Stess's hospitals, and Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities. Crime is totally unknown. Stess's national animal is the Wolf🐺, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is 🐓.

Stess is ranked 5,859^th in the world and 2^nd in Edoca for Most Cultured, scoring 146 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.