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The Squadron of Manta Rays is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Polo Nirte with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 2.267 billion Manta Rays are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ife. The average income tax rate is 58.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Manta Rays economy, worth 55.4 trillion Dorsals 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 Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Soda Sales, and Tourism. Average income is 24,434 Dorsals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, people who have lived their entire lives in Manta Rays are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, and Polo Nirte spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Manta Rays's national animal is the Manta Rays, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Children of the Meteor.

Manta Rays is ranked 301,134^th in the world and 16^th in Cordone for Highest Average Incomes, with 24,434.45 Standard Monetary Units.