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The United Kingdom of The Celduin is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 181 million Celduinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.2%.

The strong Celduinic economy, worth 9.59 trillion Eyrirs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 52,996 Eyrirs, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will, politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"), university applicants are judged by how much they laugh at professors' tired jokes, and when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Celduin's national animal is the Thrush, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Celduin is ranked 214,412^th in the world and 34^th in Middle Earth for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.56 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.