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The Daily Wanderings of Featured Hopper

“God, Homeland, Liberty”

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The Daily Wanderings of Featured Hopper is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and feral children. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.005 billion Featured Hoppers 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carrot City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Hopperian economy, worth 622 trillion carrots a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 207,175 carrots, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 623,389 per year while the poor average 53,712, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes, 90% of active duty FHAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral, and the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Featured Hopper's national animal is the hopper, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Featured Hopper is ranked 190,282^nd in the world and 265^th in The Union of Democratic States for Highest Drug Use, scoring 38.4 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.

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