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The Crown and Trident of Lycos

“This is a meritocracy. No one has as much merit as I do”

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The Crown and Trident of Lycos is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Queen Cari Bobson Arrna with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 10.044 billion Lycans 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mt Lycos. The average income tax rate is 14.7%.

The strong Lycan economy, worth 510 trillion lycs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 50,854 lycs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

The industries of Lycos are coughing all the way to the bank, every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor, even snitches get stitches, and Queen Cari Bobson Arrna is plotting to coup the Pacific (Lycos has found 1 easter egg). Crime is moderate. Lycos's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is couping.

Lycos is ranked 177,660^th in the world and 11^th in Niamark for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 53.39 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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