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The Imperial Federation of Improper Classifications

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The Imperial Federation of Improper Classifications is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emperor Michael II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.386 billion Classifiers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Thunder City. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Classified economy, worth a remarkable 1,337 trillion Classifications Credits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Retail. 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 amazing 304,862 Classifications Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

90% of active duty ICAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, email killed the radio star, and movie producers send film critics wads of cash in their morning newspapers in anticipation of gushing praise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Improper Classifications's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Faith of the Golden Mile.

Improper Classifications is ranked 2,393^rd in the world and 2^nd in The Galactics Union for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3,369.5 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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