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The Democratic Hedgehog Union of The Octian Empire

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The Democratic Hedgehog Union of The Octian Empire is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 3.9 billion Octians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Octian economy, worth 463 trillion Junipers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,783 Junipers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation refuses to discard its increasingly useless penny, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", the new 'Who Wants To Be A Politician' election debate auditions are more popular than the debates themselves, and the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Octian Empire's national animal is the Juniper the Hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Octian Empire is ranked 14,617^th in the world and 403^rd in The Communist Bloc for Highest Food Quality, scoring 136.71 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.

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