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The Agricultural Paradise of AppleJacky

“Amō Amōrem”

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The Agricultural Paradise of AppleJacky is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Applejack the Apple Queen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.337 billion AppleJackyians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canterlot. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient AppleJackyian economy, worth a remarkable 7,597 trillion Bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 392,914 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay, and the government is avowedly secular. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AppleJacky's national animal is the Doge, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ponyism.

AppleJacky is ranked 36^th in the world and 1^st in Papastan for Safest, scoring 270.62 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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