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The Grumpy Old Grinch of Mediobogdum

“Let Them Eat Pizza!”

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The Grumpy Old Grinch of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.766 billion Mediobogdumians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gariannonum. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 6,743 trillion Pizza Slices a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 283,755 Pizza Slices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in the West Pacific, there's more vermin than ever on the metro, the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else, and slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive. Mediobogdum's national animal is the Gyr Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Violetism.

Mediobogdum is ranked 289,847^th in the world and 3,702^nd in the West Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 3.33 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.

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