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The Sinaitic Covenant of The Children of Gerizim is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by High Priest Abed ben Asher ben Matzliach with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.536 billion Samaritans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ࠒࠓࠉࠕ ࠋࠅࠆࠄ. The average income tax rate is 83.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Samaritan economy, worth 264 trillion Sapphires a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 74,716 Sapphires, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military claims that their threatening letters are signed with the blood of their enemies, violence is always the answer in The Children of Gerizim, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, and official medical guidelines insist that childbirth is 'almost totally painless'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Children of Gerizim's national animal is the Goliath Heron, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Samaritanism.

The Children of Gerizim is ranked 322,841^st in the world and 116^th in Fifth Empire for Most Pacifist, with 5.06 cheeks turned per day.