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The Republic of Ostream

“Justice, Piety, Loyalty”

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The Republic of Ostream is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-working, cynical population of 10.478 billion Ostreamians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.3%.

The strong Ostreamian economy, worth 561 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,585 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

Criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, and people who have lived their entire lives in Ostream are shocked to discover that they are not citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostream's national animal is the porpoise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ostream is ranked 134,272^nd in the world and 1,406^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.33 law-abiding acts per hour.

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