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“Welcome to the Black Parade”

The Great Empire of Jeffetonia is a massive, economically powerful nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 3.741 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. The average income tax rate is 100%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

The importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, citizens must pay to enjoy Jeffetonia's pristine beaches, and the government's only official statement on the burning down of Jeffetonia City was that 'they shouldn't have been so careless'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jeffetonia's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Florin.

Jeffetonia is ranked 1997th in the region and 39,479th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.