abstract
| - The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandria. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy. The strong Lord Ravenclawian economy, worth 392 trillion Alexandrian Crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,275 Alexandrian Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens. Businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders, pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, artificial intelligence seeking exciting work are overcome with ennui, and Brasilistanis face layers of paperwork in a different language just to visit a doctor. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lord Ravenclaw's national animal is the Rosie, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Flemingoviaism.
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