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The United Kingdom of Greater Lexington

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The United Kingdom of Greater Lexington is a large, efficient nation, renowned for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 85 million Greater Lexingtonians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 13.2%.

The all-consuming Greater Lexingtonian economy, worth 7.03 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 82,762 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Greater Lexington's national animal is the Koala, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Greater Lexington is ranked 182,921^st in the world and 8^th in Alliance of Democratic Nations for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 353.48 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.

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