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“What Goes Up, Must Come Down”

The Carousel Queendom of A Painted Pony is a massive, devout nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.698 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

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 Religion & Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

Organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, the government seizes all major gold finds, the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour, and psychological disorders are a taboo subject. Crime is moderate. A Painted Pony's national animal is the Painted Pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Brass Ring.

A Painted Pony is ranked 70th in the region and 52,525th in the world for Most Godforsaken.