abstract
| - The large government prioritizes Welfare, although Defense, Environment, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Social Policy and Public Transport are ignored. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy. The Great Bights Mumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,085 trillion coupons 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 43,597 coupons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest. Referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, artists are pillars of society, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Bights Mum's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.
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