The United States of Printer361 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.181 billion Printer361ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Printer361ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,370 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 190,899 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people, the nation is in perpetual campaign mode, and clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer361's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Printer361 is ranked 337,550th in the world and 1,333rd in Two for Nicest Citizens, with 0.26 average smiles per day.
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Printer361, clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies.
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Printer361, the nation is in perpetual campaign mode.
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Printer361, rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people.
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Printer361, attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams.
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Printer361, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss.
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Printer361, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events.
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Printer361, all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon.
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Printer361, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet.
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Printer361, environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course.
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Printer361, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works.