abstract
| - The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akershus. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy. The frighteningly efficient Saint Olavian economy, worth 44.7 trillion Riksdalers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 118,517 Riksdalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens. Drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, mobile phone masts are being erected all over the country, and conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Olav's national animal is the Crowned Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
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