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The Great Congregation of Brethren

“In Sacred Peace”

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The Great Congregation of Brethren is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, lack of airports, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, devout population of 1.391 billion Brethren are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thriwich. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Brethren economy, worth 109 trillion tokens 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 78,632 tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, and both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brethren's national animal is the Seagull, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Dolphinism.

Brethren is ranked 143,002^nd in the world and 6,161^st in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 8.08 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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