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The Rainbow Colors of Birds of Paradise

“Freedom and Tranquility”

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The Rainbow Colors of Birds of Paradise is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by MrGreenbird with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 31.82 billion Birds of Paradiseans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ParadiseCity. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Birds of Paradisean economy, worth a remarkable 3,026 trillion Manas a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Trout Farming. 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 95,119 Manas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birds of Paradise's national animal is the Manabird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Atheism.

Birds of Paradise is ranked 28,213^th in the world and 59^th in Nederland for Highest Poor Incomes, with 63,833.91 Standard Monetary Units.

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