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The Alienated States of Not ARB

“Muqi Fachang (牧谿法常)”

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The Alienated States of Not ARB is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Bax Marry with an iron fist, and notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, prohibition of alcohol, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.827 billion BoardMembers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Folderol. The average income tax rate is 29.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Not ARBian economy, worth 486 trillion Markkaa 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 black market in Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. 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 55,136 Markkaa, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance, terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, and Bambi has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Not ARB's national animal is the SARS CoV-2 Virus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Order of Violet.

Not ARB is ranked 4,696^th in the world and 1^st in Oahu for Most Primitive, scoring 127.7 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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