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The Republic of Jubilee 12

“Might Makes Right”

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The Republic of Jubilee 12 is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.609 billion Jubilee 12ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 31.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Jubilee 12ian economy, worth 370 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,954 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about Leader, citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account, warning signs caution Jubilee 12ians where they may fall off 'the edge of the world', and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jubilee 12's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jubilee 12 is ranked 226,382^nd in the world and 5^th in Holy Union of Navarra for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 23,838.67 Standard Monetary Units.