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The Vortex of Ocean Gyre

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The Vortex of Ocean Gyre is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Captain Charles J․ Moore with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 8.383 billion ocean gyres are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ocean City. The average income tax rate is 66.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient gyral economy, worth 963 trillion eddies 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. 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 114,941 eddies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ocean Gyre's national animal is the cod and its national religion is Coriolis Effect.

Ocean Gyre is ranked 24,879^th in the world and 15^th in Seinfeld for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.04 law-abiding acts per hour.

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