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The Bundedemokratische Republik of Aequatio is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 14.78 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Citizens select which government department gets their income tax Aequatian markes each year, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aequatio's national animal is the Domo-Kun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Aequatian marke.

Aequatio is ranked 36th in the region and 49,648th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.