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The Powerful Solicitations of Temptation is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Lucifer with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.618 billion Tempteds are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Administration, and Social Policy are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 31.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Temptationian economy, worth a remarkable 1,328 trillion somethings 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 67,725 somethings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Fish with fish chips have become the new Temptationian food staple, immigrants who don't like the taste of Temptationian Turnip Chips are immediately deported, wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts, and the nation's declaring that sharing nukes is caring. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Temptation's national animal is the something else, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Temptation is ranked 82,138^th in the world and 1^st in Sin for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,510.57 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.