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The United Socialist States of Earth Defense

“Civitas se optat duas tantum res panem et circenses.”

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The United Socialist States of Earth Defense is a huge, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 725 million Earth Defenseans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Ryland. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Earth Defensean economy, worth 18.3 trillion Ecoes 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 25,197 Ecoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, and one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Earth Defense's national animal is the Homo Sapien, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Earth Defense is ranked 179,063^rd in the world and 8,699^th in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 194.34 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.

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