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The Kingdom of New Newville

“We're probably going to die”

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The Kingdom of New Newville is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 360 million New Newvillans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The New Newvillean economy, worth 20.3 trillion SpacePesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 56,388 SpacePesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to New Newville City to enjoy their national art, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-SpacePesos mansions, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Newville's national animal is the Cougar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Newville is ranked 16,156^th in the world and 363^rd in The East Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.84 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.

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