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The Republic of Vara 166

“Pride and Industry”

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The Republic of Vara 166 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, ritual sacrifices, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.247 billion Vara 166ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Vara 166ian economy, worth 960 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 153,763 deniers, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, no one over the age of 35 has the slightest clue what is going on, and Leader is famed for giving great back rubs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vara 166's national animal is the porpoise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Vara 166 is ranked 22,469^th in the world and 129^th in Eye for Lowest Crime Rates, with 87.78 law-abiding acts per hour.

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