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The Self Immolation of Bourgeois Babylon

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The Self Immolation of Bourgeois Babylon is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.797 billion Bourgeois Babylonians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lead City. The average income tax rate is 59.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bourgeois Babylonian economy, worth 66.5 trillion Lollies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. Average income is 17,526 Lollies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', abattoirs are struggling with the directive to 'wait until the animal dies of a ripe old age', and films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bourgeois Babylon's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Bourgeois Babylon is ranked 179,242^nd in the world and 2^nd in Adventure Time for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 30.2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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