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Thailand is a fertile, well-watered kingdom in southeast Asia. It enjoys a productive agricultural economy, with its primary exports being rice, sugar, pineapples, and rubber.

Thailand has been a kingdom since the 13th century, but now is a constitutional monarchy. The powerful and corrupt army dominated politics, protecting the large sex industry, drug networks and crime syndicates. The recently elected civilian government is committed to dealing with the army's corruption and to diminishing its influence.

Thailand means Land of the Free, but the nation is in bondage to a complex web of culture, spirit appeasement, occult practices, and Buddhism, which is the state religion. Minority religions are protected by the government.