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The Community of Vaxopia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 518 million Vaxopians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 43.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Vaxopian economy, worth 15.5 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 29,992 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, magpie populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions, international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Vaxopia, and the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaxopia's national animal is the magpie, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Vaxopia is ranked 207,404^th in the world and 7^th in Union of Oscand for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,581.12 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.