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The Commonwealth of Owl District

“Nighttime awakens the darkest secrets of humanity”

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The Commonwealth of Owl District is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its conspicuous electricity pylons, infamous sell-swords, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 10.986 billion Owl Districtians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Industry, although Law & Order and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owl Districtian City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Owl Districtian economy, worth a remarkable 1,757 trillion hoots a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 159,973 hoots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 733,027 per year while the poor average 21,223, a ratio of 34.5 to 1.

Families burn Leader's latest official photograph to keep warm, pet owners want to know why their animals keep smiling at them, abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics, and citizens insist that there's no law against standing downwind when marijuana crops are burned off. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Owl District's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Owl District is ranked 46,778^th in the world and 9^th in Seven To Many for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,931.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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