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The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 11ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,625 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 210,037 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 639,674 per year while the poor average 53,525, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Dissidents are commonly labelled as baby-killers, restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food, religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools, and college-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Pack Storage 11's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

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