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The Free Haven of Aerika

“Love and Tolerate”

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The Free Haven of Aerika is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 626 million Aerikans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Birchville. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Aerikan economy, worth 63.5 trillion bits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,418 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, and Aerika recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aerika's national animal is the dire carebear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aerika is ranked 272,128^th in the world and 5,891^st in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.71 flags saluted per person per day.

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