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The King of All Wild Things

“I'll eat you up!”

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The King of All Wild Things is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Maurice Sendup with an even hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.972 billion Wild Things enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Max's room. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Wild economy, worth a remarkable 1,679 trillion hot suppers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Gambling, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 112,151 hot suppers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned, fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism, and teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. All Wild Things's national animal is the wild thing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

All Wild Things is ranked 24,207^th in the world and 1^st in Where the Wild Things Are for Highest Poor Incomes, with 84,810.72 Standard Monetary Units.

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