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Largest Black Market: 501stMost Subsidized Industry: 1,176thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,216th
The 🎖️Military Dictatorship of
Iron Fist Consumerists
One People, One World, One Love, Six Beers
General Addams
Influence
Negotiator
Guardian
Civil Rights
Few
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Unheard Of

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Rastarda

Population24.864 billion

CapitalNew Ratzville
LeaderGeneral Addams
FaithThat Old Time Religion

CurrencyScratch
AnimalChicken

The 🎖️Military Dictatorship of Rastarda is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by General Addams with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.864 billion Rastamons 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Ratzville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Rastardan economy, worth a remarkable 7,399 trillion Scratches a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 297,598 Scratches, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,422,094 per year while the poor average 36,521, a ratio of 38.9 to 1.

The government nonchalantly sells old nukes to other countries, people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, and screams of citizens being "re-educated" echo throughout the rural regions of Rastarda. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rastarda's national animal is the Chicken, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is That Old Time Religion.

Rastarda is ranked 311,032nd in the world and 12th in El Segundo Mundo for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.18 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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Largest Black Market: 501stMost Subsidized Industry: 1,176thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,216thLargest Retail Industry: 1,223rdMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1,228thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1,387thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 2,130thHighest Economic Output: 2,134thMost Efficient Economies: 3,136thHighest Average Incomes: 3,319thTop
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Most Politically Apathetic Citizens: 3,496thMost Corrupt Governments: 4,056thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 4,885thMost Advanced Public Transport: 5,109thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 5,139thLargest Governments: 5,156thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 5,270thLargest Welfare Programs: 5,644thHighest Average Tax Rates: 6,448thMost Devout: 7,554thLargest Publishing Industry: 7,913thLowest Crime Rates: 9,086thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 9,109thLargest Mining Sector: 9,539thRudest Citizens: 11,922ndLongest Average Lifespans: 12,449thLargest Populations: 12,835thMost Patriotic: 14,154thLargest Trout Fishing Sector: 14,394thTop
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Largest Information Technology Sector: 20,651stMost Ignorant Citizens: 22,206thMost Advanced Public Education: 22,601stMost World Assembly Endorsements: 25,731stMost Cultured: 29,705th
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Largest Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1st in the regionLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1st in the regionLargest Trout Fishing Sector: 1st in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, screams of citizens being "re-educated" echo throughout the rural regions of Rastarda.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, the government nonchalantly sells old nukes to other countries.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war.
  • : Rastarda was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Efficient Economies.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, business leaders are mailing General Addams forged birth certificates in a bid to win their rivals as serfs.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls.
  • : Following new legislation in Rastarda, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion.

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