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The Sovereign Hamster Union of Zamboa is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Hammy McFluff with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, free-roaming dinosaurs, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic population of 859 million Zamboans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Little Rodentia. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Zamboan economy, worth 77.1 trillion Hamster Food Pellets a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,724 Hamster Food Pellets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

News headlines usually include p-values, airport security is provided by private companies, elections are won by the candidate who makes the best 'yo mama' jokes, and delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zamboa's national animal is the Dwarf Hamster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zamboa is ranked 8,092^nd in the world and 169^th in the Pacific for Most Secular, with 96.95 Atheism Rate.