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The Space Colony of Orbital Habitat

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The Space Colony of Orbital Habitat is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, anti-smoking policies, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 4.986 billion cosmonauts 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 Spirituality, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 24.7%.

The powerhouse Space economy, worth 479 trillion space creds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,115 space creds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Colonial subjects have Space culture shoved down their throats, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks, and in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho). Crime is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Orbital Habitat's national animal is the space whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Orbital Habitat is ranked 327,443^rd in the world and 4,950^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring -3.16 on the Societal Mobility Rating.

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