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The Free Land of Dark Stormclouds

“Nature's wrath lies above.”

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The Free Land of Dark Stormclouds is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 744 million Dark Stormclouds enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 47.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Dark Stormcloud economy, worth 12.6 trillion Standard Monetary Units a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 16,911 Standard Monetary Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, people who have lived their entire lives in Dark Stormclouds are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark Stormclouds's national animal is the beagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dark Stormclouds is ranked 146,069^th in the world and 17^th in Realm for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.35 law-abiding acts per hour.

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