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The Flying thing of Planes

“We are all planes”

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The Flying thing of Planes is a massive, genial nation, ruled by D Havilliand with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.62 billion Planesians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bombardier-Boeing-Airbus city. The average income tax rate is 89.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Planesian economy, worth 378 trillion Engines a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,603 Engines, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, gossip magazines have pictures of D Havilliand sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, troublemakers boast about how many times they have to visit their therapist, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany D Havilliand to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Planes's national animal is the Syrian Hamster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Airplane Worship.

Planes is ranked 222,078^th in the world and 8,607^th in The North Pacific for Most Secular, with 11.43 Atheism Rate.

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