Location: Romania

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The Bulibashescian Republic of Romanelia is a colossal, devout nation, ruled by Bulibăshescu Mondealu with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.998 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bukale. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Retail industries.

Drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, the Great Romanelia Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region, and religious classes are compulsory for all school students. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Romanelia's national animal is the cocalar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is manele and boorishness, and its currency is the bribe.

Romanelia is ranked 2nd in Romania and 22,493rd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 26 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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