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The Republic of Americopia

“Fryske Frijheid”

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The Republic of Americopia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Zonsopkomst with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 4.682 billion Americopians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Administration, Defense, and Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Warshington DC. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.3%.

The powerhouse Americopian economy, worth 543 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 116,082 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 778,146 per year while the poor average 6,506, a ratio of 119 to 1.

Economics is a shrinking field, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths, and coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Americopia's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christian.

Americopia is ranked 181,645^th in the world and 189^th in Nordic Lands for Smartest Citizens, with 27.05 quips per hour.

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