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The Borderlands of Fluffy the Alligator is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.635 billion Fluffy the Alligatorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.2%.

The very strong Fluffy the Alligatorian economy, worth 337 trillion handbags a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,821 handbags, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 249,932 per year while the poor average 9,337, a ratio of 26.8 to 1.

Reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic, class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference, the navy plans patrols according to how many pubs nearby ports have, and tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fluffy the Alligator's national animal is the alligator, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Fluffy the Alligator is ranked 117,590^th in the world and 1^st in Noggin for Most Developed, scoring 58.46 on the Human Development Index.