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The Telefonrundspruch of Drahtfunk

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The Telefonrundspruch of Drahtfunk is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 27.022 billion Drahtfunkians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Drahtfunkian economy, worth 909 trillion grenzmauers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 33,640 grenzmauers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, women who display their ankles are shunned by society, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, and all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Drahtfunk's national animal is the funkapotamus.

Drahtfunk is ranked 120,646^th in the world and 4,444^th in Osiris for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,493.36 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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