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The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia

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The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.292 billion Valoptians 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 is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Valoptian economy, worth a remarkable 2,101 trillion pounds 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 489,616 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,714,939 per year while the poor average 101,495, a ratio of 16.9 to 1.

A citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true, public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment, vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR, and government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valoptia's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Valoptia is ranked 287,675^th in the world and 1,393^rd in The Communist Bloc for Safest, scoring 4.55 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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