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The Zahnradist State of Gepanzerberg

“Fulfill my promise of peace, and you will receive it”

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The Zahnradist State of Gepanzerberg is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Honorable Leader Frances V with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.94 billion Gepanzerbergers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Cazalojarse. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Gepanzerberger economy, worth 457 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 155,537 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, and the national security service are a bunch of crooks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gepanzerberg's national animal is the wild boar, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Gepanzerberg is ranked 8,570^th in the world and 1^st in Small Tropical Island for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 14,135.62 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

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