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The Watchfires of Gone Fishin is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 26.782 billion Gone Fishinians 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 medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.1%.

The powerhouse Gone Fishinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,927 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,965 $$s, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, binoculars sales are at an all-time high, and ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gone Fishin's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gone Fishin is ranked 51,097^th in the world and 1^st in Fishmongers for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.