Location: the West Pacific

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The Empirical Empire of Kevin Ruddistan is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Supreme Eternal Dear Leader Rudd with an iron fist, and notable for its irreverence towards religion. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.937 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ruddtopia. The average income tax rate is 73%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

Hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight, private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, and people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kevin Ruddistan's national animal is the Julia Gillard Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Ruddislam - The way of dear Leader, and its currency is the KEV Dollar.

Kevin Ruddistan is ranked 353rd in the West Pacific and 15,677th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 19 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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