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The Quick Catch of Big Shot

“Should I dance?”

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The Quick Catch of Big Shot is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and daily referendums. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 11.452 billion Big Shotians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Big Shotian economy, worth a remarkable 1,497 trillion Woolongs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 130,720 Woolongs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 930,338 per year while the poor average 6,069, a ratio of 153 to 1.

The nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, and people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Big Shot's national animal is the Corgi, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Big Shot is ranked 34,126^th in the world and 825^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 200.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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