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The Democratic Republic of United Atan Forways is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 631 million United Atan Forwaysians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse United Atan Forwaysian economy, worth 67.7 trillion bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 107,337 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They say that United Atan Forwaysians made a dessert and called it peace, genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Atan Forways's national animal is the Spring bok.

United Atan Forways is ranked 61,615^th in the world and 42^nd in Africa for Most Patriotic, with 28.8 flags saluted per person per day.