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The Hoary Goliath of Mastodon

“Near the kraken sleepeth stirs coral and bone”

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The Hoary Goliath of Mastodon is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Goliath Tusk with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 10.817 billion Mastodons are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elephantine. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Mastodon economy, worth a remarkable 3,462 trillion kroner a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 320,071 kroner, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,867,774 per year while the poor average 4,600, a ratio of 623 to 1.

Being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, human resources employees have time for hobbies as harassment is designated "high praise", anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, and only the richest get to see out of their windows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mastodon's national animal is the Woolly Mammoth, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Norse Black Magic.

Mastodon is ranked 6,052^nd in the world and 3^rd in Dinotopia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 111.94 law-abiding acts per hour.

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