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The City of Davao is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, strictly enforced bedtime, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 30.717 billion Davaoans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Davao. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Davaoan economy, worth a remarkable 7,923 trillion Pesos a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 257,950 Pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime, anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder, and an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Davao's national animal is the Kalabaw na Pantubig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Davao is ranked 32,440^th in the world and 7^th in Philippines for Most Developed, scoring 82 on the Human Development Index.