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The Watchfires of Go Tell It On The Mountain

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The Watchfires of Go Tell It On The Mountain is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and pith helmet sales. The quiet, industrious population of 16.888 billion Go Tell It On The Mountainians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 48.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Go Tell It On The Mountainian economy, worth 971 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,542 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

An underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban, a nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and every week is blindness awareness week. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Go Tell It On The Mountain's national animal is the Death's-head hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Go Tell It On The Mountain is ranked 135,505^th in the world and 1^st in NYC for Safest, scoring 66.9 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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