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The Crest of A High And Beautiful Wave

“A High And Beautiful Wave”

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The Crest of A High And Beautiful Wave is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Hunter Thompson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.388 billion High And Beautiful Waveans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Haight-Ashbury. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient High And Beautiful Wavean economy, worth a remarkable 1,421 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 151,378 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant High And Beautiful Waveans, the treehouse in Otter Park is the tallest building in A High And Beautiful Wave, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and the weather in The Haight-Ashbury is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'. Crime is totally unknown. A High And Beautiful Wave's national animal is the otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Hippies.

A High And Beautiful Wave is ranked 282,965^th in the world and 41^st in Hippy Haven for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -13.27 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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