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The Republic of Lightbound Dispatch Office is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic, devout population of 3.72 billion Lightbound Dispatch Officeans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 62.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lightbound Dispatch Officean economy, worth 98.5 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 26,472 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, Harry Potter books are banned, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, and banning party poppers has been a real party pooper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lightbound Dispatch Office's national animal is the sphinx.

Lightbound Dispatch Office is ranked 176,807^th in the world and 2^nd in Lightbound for Highest Poor Incomes, with 22,257.93 Standard Monetary Units.