4 Billion People! (12/28/19)

The Commonwealth of The Greater Eastern Republic is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Eclogronio with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.051 billion Greater Eastern Republicans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drewusalem. The average income tax rate is 84.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Greater Eastern Republican economy, worth 949 trillion NationStates dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 234,509 NationStates dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

A National Academy regulates grammar and usage, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Greater Eastern Republic's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Eclogronionism.

The Greater Eastern Republic is ranked 10,641st in the world and 171st in Europe for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 84.17 Effective Tax Rate.