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The Electoral Process of Caucus is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Tom Harkin with an even hand, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, lack of airports, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 14.602 billion caucus-goers are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Des Moines. The average income tax rate is 42.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient caucusing economy, worth a remarkable 2,099 trillion nominations 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 143,807 nominations, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Black gold is looking more brown these days, disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown, the state-controlled media salutes those about to spy, and snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caucus's national animal is the high school gymnasium, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is hyperlocal democracy.

Caucus is ranked 9,252^nd in the world and 3^rd in Seinfeld for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 43,162.04 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.