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The Playground of King Scorm

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The Playground of King Scorm is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Hooty with an iron fist, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, triple-decker prams, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.288 billion playthings are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stalingrad. The average income tax rate is 4.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient King Scormian economy, worth a remarkable 2,831 trillion Rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 275,238 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, Hooty always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms, stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded King Scorm to disarm, and workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. King Scorm's national animal is the Human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Nonexistent.

King Scorm is ranked 288,489^th in the world and 11,074^th in Balder for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3.02 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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