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The United Socialist States of Pen Scresland

“Real freedom must include economic security.”

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The United Socialist States of Pen Scresland is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Bernie Sanders with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.485 billion Penners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Proletariat City. The average income tax rate is 93.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Penner economy, worth 225 trillion Nones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 90,898 Nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

"Bernie Sanders got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime. Crime is totally unknown. Pen Scresland's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The opiate of the masses.

Pen Scresland is ranked 22,439^th in the world and 393^rd in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 87.8 law-abiding acts per hour.

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