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The Kingdom of Western Kalderos is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 209 million Western Kalderosians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 32.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Western Kalderosian economy, worth 13.1 trillion kronor a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 62,553 kronor, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Rabbits are known to spontaneously explode without warning, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products, and unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Western Kalderos's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Western Kalderos is ranked 120,417^th in the world and 2,033^rd in The North Pacific for Most Authoritarian, with 848.48 milliStalins.