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The Principality of Mint Chip 49 is a colossal, pleasant nation, notable for its public floggings, strictly enforced bedtime, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 3.053 billion Mint Chip 49ians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.6%.

The strong Mint Chip 49ian economy, worth 114 trillion kronor a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 37,361 kronor, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 198,752 per year while the poor average 3,702, a ratio of 53.7 to 1.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping, corporate lobbying has been outlawed, and rural citizens live in terror of their local village constable. Crime is a problem. Mint Chip 49's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Mint Chip 49 is ranked 313,837^th in the world and 16,784^th in Osiris for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 250.65 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.