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The State of Ouaken

“Homeland, Liberty, Freedom”

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The State of Ouaken is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 16.638 billion Ouakenians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Welfare, although Education, Healthcare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 53.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ouakenian economy, worth 77.5 trillion betales 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, quite specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. 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 4,660 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Democratic debates have been removed from the government, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, nudity is frowned upon, and high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ouaken's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ouaken is ranked 243,613^th in the world and 7^th in Seattle for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 89.19 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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