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The State of Jackson Purchase is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 41.926 billion Jackson Purchaseans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.6%.

The powerhouse Jackson Purchasean economy, worth a remarkable 1,862 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 44,416 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 173,770 per year while the poor average 7,734, a ratio of 22.5 to 1.

Child labor has been outlawed, Jackson Purchase has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Jackson Purchase in an international press conference, and a major religion has been named as Jackson Purchase's national religion. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Jackson Purchase's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Jackson Purchase is ranked 142,174^th in the world and 1^st in Jackson Purchase for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,187.23 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.