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The Blazing Borderlands of Norfairdepths

“On its way to coming back more times than Ridley.”

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The Blazing Borderlands of Norfairdepths is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ridley with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, otherworldly petting zoo, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 40.294 billion Norfairdepthsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ridley's Lair. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Norfairdepthsian economy, worth a remarkable 7,605 trillion Squeepts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 188,751 Squeepts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's countrysides are littered with landmines due to ongoing family disputes, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', and the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Norfairdepths's national animal is the Crocomire, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Space Piracy.

Norfairdepths is ranked 291,479^th in the world and 11,166^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 18.85 law-abiding acts per hour.

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