Liquame

Liquame, officially the Kingdom of Liquame (Italian: Regno d'Liquame), is a huge, safe nation renowned for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.7 billion Liquamese Italians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, economically centrist government juggles the competing demands of spirituality, law and order, and defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17%.

The very strong Liquamese economy, worth 475 trillion lire a year, is broadly diversified and led by the pizza delivery industry, with major contributions from trout farming, wood chip exports, and arms manufacturing. Average income is 54,383 lire, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning L170,811 per year while the poor average L13,257, a ratio of 12.9 to 1.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Liquame's national animal is the the goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.