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“Surrender your cheese!”

The Holy Cheese-Loving Cheese Weasel Republic of Kryozerkia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Grand Magistrate Weasel with a fair hand, and notable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 14.145 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kerzokoia. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Automobile Manufacturing.

Education and welfare spending are on the rise, all recreational drugs are legal, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Kryozerkia Blood Tithe, and murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Kryozerkia's national animal is the Waccoon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Chēz.

Kryozerkia is ranked 28th in the region and 54,745th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.