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“God save Ruby!”

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The Ancient Unification of Jack and Ruby is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sebastian Dinari with a fair hand, and renowned for its burgeoning Cat population. The democratic, devout population of 4.244 billion Jackan and Rubyians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government is dominated by the Department of Administration, although Welfare, Education, and Environment are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heslonis. The average income tax rate is 22.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Jack and Rubyian economy, worth 258 trillion Catalanotas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 60,904 Catalanotas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

"Sebastian Dinari got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, a government program is underway to revitalize Jack and Ruby's beaches, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, and weekends are spent tilting at windmills. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Jack and Ruby's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Jack and Ruby is ranked 124,982^nd in the world and 3^rd in The Protectorate of the Sun for Highest Average Incomes, with 60,904.48 Standard Monetary Units.