abstract
| - The relatively small government prioritizes Education, although Defense is also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arpia. The average income tax rate is 46.7%, but much higher for the wealthy. The frighteningly efficient Arpean economy, worth a remarkable 5,111 trillion arpean yen a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 178,206 arpean yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens. Military spending is on the increase, the Arpean Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, political dissidents are cut off from essential services, and matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold. Crime is totally unknown. Reploid Productions's national animal is the reploid dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Shimekism.
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