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The Illuminated Kingdom of The Ambis

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The Illuminated Kingdom of The Ambis is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by King Richard Isarti II with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful, devout population of 6.761 billion Ambisians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elios. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ambisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,361 trillion Sca'ars 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 Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 amazing 201,308 Sca'ars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', all the world's a stage for Ambisian political theatrics, and the nation's peacekeeping efforts usually come with a healthy dose of pillaging. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Ambis's national animal is the Axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Illuminatism.

The Ambis is ranked 13,701^st in the world and 21^st in Thaecia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 98.1 law-abiding acts per hour.

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