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The Socialist State of Testnation223

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The Socialist State of Testnation223 is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.301 billion Testnationians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Capital. The average income tax rate is 94.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Testnation223ian economy, worth 164 trillion credits 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Tourism. 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 an impressive 126,706 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted, mollycoddled youths run the country, workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings, and scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Testnation223's national animal is the leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Leaderism.

Testnation223 is ranked 7,603^rd in the world and 458^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 91.84 on the Human Development Index.

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