abstract
| - The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Loony-Taka. The average income tax rate is 98.1%. The frighteningly efficient Vubarian economy, worth 550 trillion blackriders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 166,345 blackriders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens. Movies and computer games are strictly censored for violence, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, EpiPen sales have skyrocketed, and homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vubar's national animal is the Nero, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.
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