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The Soft and Puffy Nation of Vandoosa Dreizehn

“Hewwo! It is safe to hug me! I won't eat you...”

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The Soft and Puffy Nation of Vandoosa Dreizehn is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by a nice girl who eats people with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 21.369 billion soft and fluffy citizens are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Serico. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Vandoosa Dreizehnian economy, worth a remarkable 1,520 trillion Ceks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,170 Ceks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, billions of Ceks are being blown on orbital weapons development, Vandoosa Dreizehn's army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers, and citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Vandoosa Dreizehn. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vandoosa Dreizehn's national animal is the Faerie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is canibalism.

Vandoosa Dreizehn is ranked 143,161^st in the world and 102^nd in Jenny for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 562.91 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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