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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, safe nation, ruled by Hunter Thompson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.456 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 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient High And Beautiful Wavean economy, worth a remarkable 1,438 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 152,102 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Hunter Thompson is described as an everyday person with normal tastes and the usual interests, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, nude art is becoming wildly popular, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. 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 13,980^th in the world and 8^th in Hippy Haven for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 342.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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