The Republic of Card Farmer 330 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 4.62 billion Card Farmer 330ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.
The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Card Farmer 330ian economy, worth 553 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 119,848 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 438,932 per year while the poor average 23,187, a ratio of 18.9 to 1.
Jaywalking is punishable by public flogging, victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand, homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, and nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Farmer 330's national animal is the farming, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Card Farmer 330 is ranked 109,168th in the world and 1,724th in Birb for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,609.7 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.
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Card Farmer 330 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.
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Card Farmer 330 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
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Card Farmer 330 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
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Card Farmer 330 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
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Card Farmer 330 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
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Card Farmer 330's influence in Birb fell from "Squire" to "Shoeshiner".
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Card Farmer 330's influence in Birb rose from "Zero" to "Squire".
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Card Farmer 330 relocated from The North Pacific to Birb.
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Card Farmer 330 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Survivors.
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Card Farmer 330's influence in The North Pacific rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".