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“I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go”

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The Ziggy Stardust of David Bowie is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, feral children, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.398 billion David Bowieans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Administration, Defense, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Public Transport and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 45.8%.

The frighteningly efficient David Bowiean economy, worth a remarkable 1,638 trillion changes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 132,173 changes, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

Multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks, folk singers have replaced personal injury lawyers in being ridiculed as "ambulance chasers", homophobia is off the menu, and NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. David Bowie's national animal is the ziggy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

David Bowie is ranked 26,544^th in the world and 3^rd in Brooklyn for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,849.14 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.