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Highest Workforce Participation Rate: 7,953rdMost Rebellious Youth: 16,842ndHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 19,277th
The Kingdom of
Moralistic Democracy Narrow-Minded Backwoodsy Bigots
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Influence
Hatchling
Region
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Good
Political Freedom
Below Average

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Zposaol

Population10.376 billion

CurrencyDenero
AnimalSpider

The Kingdom of Zposaol is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and state-planned economy. The hard-working population of 10.376 billion Zposaolians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 48.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Zposaolian economy, worth 490 trillion Deneroes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 47,301 Deneroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, the military struggles with recruitment, the studies of art and philosophy are banned, and the judicial branch is strongly influenced by the Communist Party. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zposaol's national animal is the Spider, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zposaol is ranked 268,622nd in the world and 14,884th in Balder for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 24,549.57 Standard Monetary Units.

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Highest Workforce Participation Rate: 7,953rdTop
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Most Rebellious Youth: 16,842ndHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 19,277thMost Advanced Public Transport: 27,050thMost World Assembly Endorsements: 27,896thLargest Welfare Programs: 29,725thMost Pacifist: 30,798thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 32,146th
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Highest Workforce Participation Rate: 436th in the regionMost Rebellious Youth: 789th in the regionTop
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Most World Assembly Endorsements: 1,060th in the regionHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 1,095th in the regionLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 1,652nd in the regionLargest Welfare Programs: 1,701st in the regionMost Advanced Public Transport: 1,711th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Zposaol's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
  • : Zposaol's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
  • : Zposaol was refounded in Balder.
  • : Zposaol ceased to exist in Eta.
  • : Zposaol was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
  • : Zposaol was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Rebellious Youth.
  • : Zposaol's influence in Eta fell from "Sprat" to "Minnow".
  • : Zposaol's influence in Eta rose from "Zero" to "Sprat".
  • : Zposaol relocated from Prison to Eta.
  • : Zposaol applied to join the World Assembly.

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