abstract
| - The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mega City 1. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy. The frighteningly efficient Xovlandian economy, worth 242 trillion Xovs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 104,411 Xovs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest. Veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, Abumwe Sanctanova has just been declared ruler of Xovland in an international press conference, and Agnosticism has been named as Xovland's national religion. Crime is totally unknown. Xovland's national animal is the Dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnosticism.
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