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The Panoptikon of Varanius

“We build the wall to keep us free”

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The Panoptikon of Varanius is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vauron with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, smutty television, and vat-grown people. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 10.139 billion Entities 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zygotia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Entitian economy, worth a remarkable 2,528 trillion Jarlic Jewels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 249,418 Jarlic Jewels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, popular websites like NationStates are blocked for "national security", lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies, and Vauron's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Varanius's national animal is the thing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ego-Varaism.

Varanius is ranked 2,643^rd in the world and 39^th in the West Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 14,365.76 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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