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The Republic of BARC Trooper 10 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 1.368 billion BARC Trooper 10ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 24.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient BARC Trooper 10ian economy, worth 48.7 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,628 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, out-of-work actors say they can't complain, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, and there are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BARC Trooper 10's national animal is the Droid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

BARC Trooper 10 is ranked 286,099^th in the world and 4,603^rd in eta for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.27 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.