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The Free Lunch of PerpetualMotionMachine

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The Free Lunch of PerpetualMotionMachine is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 45.279 billion PerpetualMotionMachineans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped PerpetualMotionMachinean economy, worth 944 trillion sprockets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Woodchip Exports, Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 20,861 sprockets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region and citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PerpetualMotionMachine's national animal is the rube, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

PerpetualMotionMachine is ranked 1^st in the world and 1^st in Bad Science for Safest, scoring zero on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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