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The Mysterious Airship of King Carl

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The Mysterious Airship of King Carl is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, avowedly heterosexual populace, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 44.158 billion King Carlians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King Carl City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient King Carlian economy, worth an astonishing 26,805 trillion lats 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Information Technology. 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 a breathtaking 607,043 lats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,075,531 per year while the poor average 130,536, a ratio of 15.9 to 1.

The police double as repo men, maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, and soldiers must key in their passwords every time they want to reload their weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. King Carl's national animal is the great leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is a major religion.

King Carl is ranked 50^th in the world and 1^st in Hattrick for Lowest Crime Rates, with 323.56 law-abiding acts per hour.

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