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The Kingdom of Ash Ketchum

“I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was”

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The Kingdom of Ash Ketchum is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic, devout population of 185 million Ash Ketchumians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 39.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Ash Ketchumian economy, worth 3.68 trillion Pokémon dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 19,913 Pokémon dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, pretending to be prejudiced is a good way to get out of jury duty, and the election for Leader's office's janitor is heating up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ash Ketchum's national animal is the mouse, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Ash Ketchum is ranked 266,023^rd in the world and 3,647^th in Ambition for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -46.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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