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The Republic of Willowsplinter

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The Republic of Willowsplinter is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 8.386 billion Willowsplinterians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 57.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Willowsplinterian economy, worth 57.9 trillion baht 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 Cheese Exports, Woodchip Exports, Trout Farming, 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 6,900 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, and a major religion has been named as Willowsplinter's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willowsplinter's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willowsplinter is ranked 63,938^th in the world and 2^nd in Jregoria for Most Corrupt Governments, with 28.66 kickbacks per hour.

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