The Holy Empire of Kaudis is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 590 million Kaudese 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."
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zausmirth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Kaudese economy, worth 45.4 trillion Preikis a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Gambling industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,009 Preikis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 223,349 per year while the poor average 21,029, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.
The mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, legislators must raise their hands if they want to speak, and a degree in Leader Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Kaudis's national animal is the Ghost, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Kaudis is ranked 343,669th in the world and 24th in Poschomenia for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -13.21 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.
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Kaudis, a degree in Leader Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers.
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Kaudis, legislators must raise their hands if they want to speak.
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Kaudis, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools.
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Kaudis, the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations.
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Kaudis was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
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Kaudis, doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis.
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Kaudis, there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building.
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Kaudis, pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall.
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Kaudis, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Kaudis after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax.
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Kaudis was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive.