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The Rogue Nation of Wasted Natural Resources is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.814 billion Wasted Natural Resourcesians 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 large, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 55.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Wasted Natural Resourcesian economy, worth 166 trillion Kugerrands 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. 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 28,583 Kugerrands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular candidates who don't suffer last-second political scandals tend to get fished out of the Wasted Natural Resources City River, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, organ donation is compulsory, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wasted Natural Resources's national animal is the Necrotizing Fasciitis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wasted Natural Resources is ranked 287,333^rd in the world and 15^th in Save The Planet for Most Developed, scoring 48.36 on the Human Development Index.