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The Salty Salts of Brine Sample

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The Salty Salts of Brine Sample is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Saltan with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 8.661 billion Salts are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salt City. The average income tax rate is 39.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Brine Samplean economy, worth 143 trillion Salts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Soda Sales, and Tourism. 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 16,555 Salts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brine Sample's national animal is the Saltfish and its national religion is Salt.

Brine Sample is ranked 130,644^th in the world and 1^st in Umbra for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,259.48 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

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