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“For the Federation”

The Colony of Belkan-Tementistan is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 988 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Defence, and Education. The average income tax rate is 41%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Woodchip Exports.

Hawks with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, and the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belkan-Tementistan's national animal is the Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Zsem.

Belkan-Tementistan is ranked 5th in the region and 11,220th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.