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The Long Dark Tea-Time of Hoopy-Froods

“Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.”

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of Hoopy-Froods is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Great Green Arkleseizure with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.035 billion Hoopy-Froodsians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 30.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Hoopy-Froodsian economy, worth 553 trillion Pan Galatic Gargle Blasters a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,459 Pan Galatic Gargle Blasters, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Merchant ships always travel line astern in Hoopy-Froodsian waters, the new one Pan Galatic Gargle Blaster coin also makes a handy throwing-star, a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion, and the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoopy-Froods's national animal is the Arcturian MegaDonkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hitchhiking.

Hoopy-Froods is ranked 211,510^th in the world and 3^rd in 42 Douglas Adams for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 27,266.49 Standard Monetary Units.

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