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“Answer 3”

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The Always Answer 3 of Answer 3 is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Tray Trio Triangle III with an iron fist, and notable for its triple-decker prams, flagrant waste-dumping, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.797 billion Answer 3ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tristate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Answer 3ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,509 trillion Threes a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 193,650 Threes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 653,202 per year while the poor average 42,498, a ratio of 15.4 to 1.

Reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up, the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape, the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system, and human sacrifice offerings die with apples in their mouths. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Answer 3's national animal is the Triangle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Trinitarian Messianic Monotheism.

Answer 3 is ranked 99,373^rd in the world and 21^st in Testregionia for Largest Populations, with 7.80 billion capita.