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The 🐦 Kingdom of Debussy

“Half of me answers the storm in its wild sing-song”

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The 🐦 Kingdom of Debussy is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Clancy with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, enslaved workforce, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cynical population of 10.599 billion Lazarenes 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Debussyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,629 trillion Banks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 153,760 Banks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, the entire entry for Debussy in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', and shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Debussy's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

Debussy is ranked 14,613^th in the world and 1,125^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 123.81 kickbacks per hour.

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