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The Marijuana Fields of Wapakalypse is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Wapakoala with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed population of 1.603 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Commerce and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wapakoala. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, meat-eating is frowned upon, and pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wapakalypse's national animal is the koala, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Wapakatheism, and its currency is the wapak.

Wapakalypse is ranked 79th in the region and 54,581st in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.