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The United Kingdom of Iberia-Francia is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, triple-decker prams, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 331 million French 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paris. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.8%.
The strong French economy, worth 31.2 trillion Realeses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 94,226 Realeses, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.
Children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, farmers are struggling to keep up with demand for local produce, and the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iberia-Francia's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.