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The Central Library of Memory Alfa

“A disaster for the galaxy. The loss may be irreversible”

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The Central Library of Memory Alfa is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Mira Romaine with an even hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 8.536 billion Scholars are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 The Cultural Institute. The average income tax rate is 82.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Athenaeum economy, worth 696 trillion Federation Credits 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 81,563 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments", Mira Romaine is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, and sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Memory Alfa's national animal is the Bookworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Memory Alfa is ranked 241,686^th in the world and 141^st in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.78 kickbacks per hour.

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