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The Frightening Lightening of Wombling Thunder

“To the sounds and sights of fear!”

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The Frightening Lightening of Wombling Thunder is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Storm King with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 2.736 billion Raindrops hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thunderbolt Alley. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wombling Thunderian economy, worth 347 trillion Cold Fronts 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. 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 an impressive 127,053 Cold Fronts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', and the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Wombling Thunder's national animal is the Winds Of Fury, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sky Of Hell.

Wombling Thunder is ranked 237,110^th in the world and 13,552^nd in Chicken overlords for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.32 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.

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