abstract
| - The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Andreisberg. The average income tax rate is 22.4%. The thriving Dalimbari economy, worth 989 trillion Dali's patiences a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 42,819 Dali's patiences, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest. Homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, judges are all-powerful, the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet, and former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dalimbar's national animal is the Libreagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Dalism.
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