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The Black Hawk of Come Join Us II is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Red Back with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, free-roaming dinosaurs, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.556 billion Hawks are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Black Hawks. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.2%.

The frighteningly efficient a Hawk economy, worth a remarkable 3,320 trillion Songs Written By CoEs a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 147,216 Songs Written By CoEs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,169,692 per year while the poor average 4,443, a ratio of 263 to 1.

Atheists are heavily taxed, school children are expected to know the names of all seven hundred native tribes and their cultural practices, business leaders are mailing Red Back forged birth certificates in a bid to win their rivals as serfs, and the internal market is thriving. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Come Join Us II's national animal is the Hymn of the Tireless Detagger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Black Hawks.

Come Join Us II is ranked 293,233^rd in the world and 119^th in The Black Hawks for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -5.48 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.