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The We don't have a Pretitle of Island Zero

“Stoke the forge and bathe the land in cleansing fire.”

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The We don't have a Pretitle of Island Zero is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Z3 with an iron fist, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.157 billion Zero Islanders 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, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Furnace. The average income tax rate is 87.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zeron economy, worth 242 trillion bits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, 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 amazing 209,207 bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format, the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically, citizens select which government department gets their income tax bits each year, and tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Island Zero's national animal is the tardigrade, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Island Zero is ranked 131,019^th in the world and 80^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Largest Agricultural Sector, scoring 428.77 on the Mu-Bah-Daggs Productivity Index.

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