abstract
| - The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magdeburg. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy. The frighteningly efficient Branden-Saxon economy, worth 156 trillion Federated Marks a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,543 Federated Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens. Businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, the constant playing of Merry Birthday on Branden-Saxon radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, and school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brandenburg and Saxony's national animal is the Red Kite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
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