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The Empire of Wazeww

“We rule our self”

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The Empire of Wazeww is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Alpherano with an iron fist, and notable for its feral children, infamous sell-swords, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.996 billion Wazewwians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Swagzew. The average income tax rate is 40.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Wazewwian economy, worth 201 trillion WAZEWS 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, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 100,935 WAZEWS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

New funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Wazeww's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Werzan.

Wazeww is ranked 14,922^nd in the world and 85^th in 10000 Islands for Most Corrupt Governments, with 122.27 kickbacks per hour.

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