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The Protectoral Zone of Autonomous Trans-Antarctica

“Progress can not be stopped”

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The Protectoral Zone of Autonomous Trans-Antarctica is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by High Senate with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.157 billion Antarcticans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Education, although Industry, Administration, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basisstadt. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Antarctican economy, worth a remarkable 3,136 trillion IDCS 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, 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 amazing 438,211 IDCS, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion, too many hyper-intelligent chefs can spoil the allegorical broth, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, and debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Autonomous Trans-Antarctica's national animal is the Orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Atheism.

Autonomous Trans-Antarctica is ranked 334,325^th in the world and 5,716^th in The North Pacific for Most Pacifist, with 3.6 cheeks turned per day.

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