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The Holy Empire of The Vangards of Discourse

“You think, therefore you exist”

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The Holy Empire of The Vangards of Discourse is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Heap Big Boss with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.121 billion Vangards of Discourseans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Vangards of Discoursean economy, worth a remarkable 1,697 trillion Vanfulersens a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 105,278 Vanfulersens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, the freedom to be free is always just out of reach, and religious households enthusiastically use whips in private. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Vangards of Discourse's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Vangards of Discourse is ranked 212,280^th in the world and 6,913^th in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -278.28 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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