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The State of Monterey District

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The State of Monterey District is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 22.493 billion Monterey Districtians 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 minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.5%.

The thriving Monterey Districtian economy, worth 664 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 29,544 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 85,564 per year while the poor average 8,084, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary and Monterey District has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a serious problem. Monterey District's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Monterey District is ranked 112,878^th in the world and 1^st in Northern California for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,132.85 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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