abstract
| - The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eridor. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.4%. The frighteningly efficient Alagaeian economy, worth a remarkable 1,520 trillion Imperial Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 224,107 Imperial Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 763,638 per year while the poor average 48,438, a ratio of 15.8 to 1. It is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated, entire provinces are populated solely by nuclear missile technicians and military police, citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, and foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous Alagaeian bee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alagaeia's national animal is the Rancor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Rule of One.
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