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The Empty Sea of Grey Owl

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The Empty Sea of Grey Owl is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.971 billion Grey Owlians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Grey Owlian economy, worth a remarkable 1,153 trillion fiddles 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 144,763 fiddles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 425,389 per year while the poor average 38,811, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, and the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grey Owl's national animal is the grey owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Grey Owl is ranked 42,757^th in the world and 241^st in Stereo Hearts for Lowest Crime Rates, with 76.58 law-abiding acts per hour.

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