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The Emirate of Basrah

“All Praise due to Allah”

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The Emirate of Basrah is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 238 million Basrahis are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Basrahi economy, worth 6.81 trillion dinars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 28,623 dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Basrah recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, citizens are remarkably well involved in the political process, and youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Basrah's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Basrah is ranked 268,965^th in the world and 21^st in Middle East for Most Secular, with 11.85 Atheism Rate.

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