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The 5 Boroughs of Danny McGlurk is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Gilbert Perreault with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.998 billion Danny McGlurkeses have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plainview. The average income tax rate is 73.6%.

The all-consuming Danny McGlurkian economy, worth 172 trillion Empire Dollars a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 86,185 Empire Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence, city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, and human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Danny McGlurk's national animal is the Quagmarius Glenicus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hurricanino.

Danny McGlurk is ranked 38,272^nd in the world and 831^st in the South Pacific for Most Secular, with 32.27 Atheism Rate.