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The People's Republic of Orwell-sylvania

“Black is white, war is peace, ignorance is slavery”

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The People's Republic of Orwell-sylvania is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 27.862 billion Orwell-sylvanians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Airstrip One. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.2%.

The Orwell-sylvanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,336 trillion Pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,984 Pounds, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil, Harry Potter books are banned, graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, and every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orwell-sylvania's national animal is the Equal pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Orwell-sylvania is ranked 3,114^th in the world and 2^nd in Pennsylvania for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.

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