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The Flatulent Bleatings of Pompous Windbags

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The Flatulent Bleatings of Pompous Windbags is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Maximilian III with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 42.828 billion Windbags are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mintaka. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Pompous Windbagsian economy, worth an astonishing 14,429 trillion bones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an amazing 336,911 bones, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,602,700 per year while the poor average 11,509, a ratio of 226 to 1.

Pompous Windbagsian-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, the nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, and vanity is considered the fifth cardinal virtue. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Pompous Windbags's national animal is the kestrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.

Pompous Windbags is ranked 295,606^th in the world and 16^th in Free States of Gaia for Nicest Citizens, with 0.1 average smiles per day.

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