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The Arcane Republic of High Earth is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Prime executive with a fair hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, keen interest in outer space, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 3.778 billion High Earthites are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wyvernia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.4%.

The frighteningly efficient High Earthian economy, worth 617 trillion Pecuns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 163,404 Pecuns, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 500,690 per year while the poor average 41,280, a ratio of 12.1 to 1.

Corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients, belief that Prime executive is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, and schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. High Earth's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

High Earth is ranked 295,141^st in the world and 104^th in England for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 44.79 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.