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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, efficient nation, ruled by Clancy with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 10.659 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 1,634 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 153,350 Banks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, builders across Debussy are blocked up with orders for new public loos, and government policy is dictated by Cards. 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 97,230^th in the world and 5,060^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 86.95 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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