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The Amorphous Mass of Point Blob

“If it has stats, we can kill it”

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The Amorphous Mass of Point Blob is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Gelatinous Dodecahedron with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, prohibition of alcohol, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 28.339 billion Point Blobians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education is also considered important, while Welfare and Law & Order aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Nucleus. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Point Blobian economy, worth an astonishing 19,697 trillion Points a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 695,055 Points, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The mob vote is a crucial electoral demographic, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, the world still seems flat to some people in space, and politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Point Blob's national animal is the amorphous blob, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Superscience.

Point Blob is ranked 247^th in the world and 1^st in Wild Hunt for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 36,319.54 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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