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The Utopia of Main Beach

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The Utopia of Main Beach is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Beach Bum with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.836 billion Main Beachians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Main Beach. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Main Beachian economy, worth a remarkable 1,651 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 152,408 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The weather in Main Beach is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Main Beachians, the treehouse in Dolphin Park is the tallest building in Main Beach, and hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework. Crime is totally unknown. Main Beach's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Paganism.

Main Beach is ranked 220,160^th in the world and 2^nd in Santa Cruz for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.9 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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