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The Rogue Nation of Volpi Apostati is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord General Kazoko with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.299 billion Volpi Apostatians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fennec Fortress. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Volpi Apostatian economy, worth a remarkable 5,512 trillion Euros 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 an amazing 338,205 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz, proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, the nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes, and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Volpi Apostati's national animal is the Fennec Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Sacred Path of Ræv.

Volpi Apostati is ranked 5,572^nd in the world and 18^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 9,301.84 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.