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The Great Empire of Pigeonstan

“Pigeons of light pigeons of life”

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The Great Empire of Pigeonstan is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by CHER AMI with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, zero percent divorce rate, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 877 million Pigeons are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pigeontropolis. The average income tax rate is 48.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pigeononyim economy, worth 122 trillion rupees a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 139,428 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults, short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants, citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper, and hay has been added to school cafeteria menus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pigeonstan's national animal is the Pigeon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Pigeonstan is ranked 14,494^th in the world and 798^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 86,708.96 Standard Monetary Units.

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