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The Slow Hand of Eric Clapton

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The Slow Hand of Eric Clapton is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Slow Hand with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 24.098 billion Eric Claptonians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ripley Surrey. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Eric Claptonian economy, worth a remarkable 7,666 trillion Slow Hands a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 318,155 Slow Hands, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,152,594 per year while the poor average 62,610, a ratio of 18.4 to 1.

Copyright laws have been abolished, Slow Hand has a wardrobe full of fake designer suits, trains and passengers alike are often late, and press conferences always end with standing ovations and rapturous applause. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Eric Clapton's national animal is the Blues Guitar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnostic Pantheism.

Eric Clapton is ranked 129,293^rd in the world and 394^th in NationStates for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,401.81 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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