abstract
| - The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amsterdam. The average income tax rate is 87.7%, and even higher for the wealthy. The powerhouse Forbidden economy, worth 820 trillion Guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,256 Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens. Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, graffiti graces every city's streets, vanity is considered the fifth cardinal virtue, and only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bota Ndaluar's national animal is the Orange Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.
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