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The United States of Arthralonia

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The United States of Arthralonia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by President Mark Clark with an even hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, smutty television, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful population of 8.473 billion Arthralonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tabriki. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Arthralonian economy, worth a remarkable 2,731 trillion Federal Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 322,359 Federal Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arthralonia's national animal is the Arthralonian Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arthralonia is ranked 6,654^th in the world and 82^nd in the Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,066.48 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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