The Promised Land of Addis Ababa is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, prohibition of alcohol, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The cynical, devout population of 36.895 billion Addis Ababans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Addis Ababa. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Addis Ababan economy, worth a remarkable 4,597 trillion birrs 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, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 124,597 birrs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 425,285 per year while the poor average 26,861, a ratio of 15.8 to 1.

There's nothing more Addis Ababan than revanchism, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, and raccoons are plump and satiated. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Addis Ababa's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Addis Ababa is ranked 5,263^rd in the world and 1^st in Ethiopia for Largest Black Market, with 1,632 trillion Standard Monetary Units.