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The Kingdom of Lawr

“We are the Law, and the Law is Not Mocked!”

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The Kingdom of Lawr is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by a legitimate monarch god bless with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.098 billion Lawrians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paris. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.0%.

The powerhouse Lawrian economy, worth a remarkable 3,463 trillion Civil Rights a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 156,721 Civil Rights, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 736,626 per year while the poor average 19,839, a ratio of 37.1 to 1.

Pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site, the government has enacted freedom of information, and Jennifer Government is a bestseller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Lawr's national animal is the Police Inspector, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Lawr is ranked 6,126^th in the world and 139^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 111.63 law-abiding acts per hour.

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