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The Grand Commonwealth of Euterpee

“Η Ευτέρπη θα αναστηθεί ως Φοίνικας!”

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The Grand Commonwealth of Euterpee is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Marble Lady Ester Alexandra II with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, national health service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 1.897 billion Euterpeeans 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, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Penelope - Αγία Πηνελόπη. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Euterpeean economy, worth 322 trillion Euterpeenian Franks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 169,977 Euterpeenian Franks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,013,503 per year while the poor average 13,023, a ratio of 77.8 to 1.

Scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls, one-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, and people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Euterpee's national animal is the Indigo Orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Euterpee is ranked 9,929^th in the world and 10^th in Aeternum for Most Cultured, scoring 115 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

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