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“With platypuses on our side, we shall rule the world!”

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The Empire of The Platypuses is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Arch-Platypus with an iron fist, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, zero percent divorce rate, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.122 billion Platypuses 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Undauntable City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Platypusian economy, worth 202 trillion Platycoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 180,527 Platycoins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,237,425 per year while the poor average 9,460, a ratio of 130 to 1.

Military chiefs are predicting extra funding in this year's budget, the government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad, the only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it, and heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. The Platypuses's national animal is the Naked Mole Rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is High-Fiveism.

The Platypuses is ranked 123,671^st in the world and 4^th in Jimothy for Most Primitive, scoring -31.38 on the Scary Big Number Scale.