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The Extreme Nonchalance of Calmly Disagreeing With The Umpire

“Sir, I do believe you may have gotten that call wrong”

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The Extreme Nonchalance of Calmly Disagreeing With The Umpire is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 980 million Calmly Disagreeing With The Umpireans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 55.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Calmly Disagreeing With The Umpirean economy, worth 8.56 trillion outside strikes 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 black market in Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 8,731 outside strikes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending recently hit a new high, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, organ donation is compulsory, and napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calmly Disagreeing With The Umpire's national animal is the inside ball.

Calmly Disagreeing With The Umpire is ranked 306,722^nd in the world and 5,681^st in Artificial Solar System for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 402.47 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.

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