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The Allied States of Luxcrest

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The Allied States of Luxcrest is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Morgan Greenwood with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.393 billion Luxcrestians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luxor. The average income tax rate is 86.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Luxcrestian economy, worth 267 trillion Luxes 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 111,942 Luxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens", all new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers, the military has gone fission for more funding, and intelligence analysts spend most of their time looking at embarrassing photos on social media sites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luxcrest's national animal is the Great Horned Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Luxcrest is ranked 11,357^th in the world and 85^th in Europeia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 382.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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