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The Empire of The Industrial States of Columbia

“For the Fallen and the fight yet to come”

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The Empire of The Industrial States of Columbia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Queen Victoria with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cheerful, devout population of 17.571 billion Columbians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order are also considered important, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delphia. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Columbian economy, worth a remarkable 2,141 trillion Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,902 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press, foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with Queen Victoria, and male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Industrial States of Columbia's national animal is the Red Tailed Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Anglicanism.

The Industrial States of Columbia is ranked 10,750^th in the world and 3^rd in Cobalt Network for Most Patriotic, with 44.64 flags saluted per person per day.

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