The Republic of Absolute Communism9 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.145 billion Absolute Communism9ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Absolute Communism9ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,602 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 175,253 francs, with the richest citizens earning 7.3 times as much as the poorest.

Whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, and a tax exemption has created a new hunger for octogenarian millionaires dating women 60 years their younger. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Absolute Communism9's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Absolute Communism9 is ranked 281,977^th in the world and 10,628^th in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 24.58 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.