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The Snekdom of Zherid

“The wise and venerable snek”

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The Snekdom of Zherid is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Snekula with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 11.526 billion Zheridians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Zheridian economy, worth a remarkable 3,701 trillion Balzhes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 321,181 Balzhes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 988,669 per year while the poor average 80,606, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.

Any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, indigenous tribal elders can be recognised by their designer watches and expensive suits, businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems, and top gamblers bet against seedy hoopers. Crime is totally unknown. Zherid's national animal is the snek, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Serpentic Buddhism.

Zherid is ranked 293,248^th in the world and 2^nd in The Lunch Table for Fattest Citizens, with 5.4 Obesity Rate.

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