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The People's Republic of Honey Cake

“Labor till you are tired then labor some more!”

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The People's Republic of Honey Cake is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 484 million Cakeaens 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Purgatoria. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cakean economy, worth 32.6 trillion £ honeys a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,319 £ honeys, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad, the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success, and strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Honey Cake's national animal is the great honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Honey Cake is ranked 60,667^th in the world and 1,935^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,593.25 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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