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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 ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory gun ownership, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 14.623 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 2,340 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 160,049 hoots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 741,844 per year while the poor average 20,791, a ratio of 35.7 to 1.

The word "robot" is considered to be etymologically offensive, notable individuals are granted land and titles, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, and belief that Leader is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high. 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 285,137^th in the world and 18^th in Seven To Many for Nicest Citizens, with 0.29 average smiles per day.

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