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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, efficient nation, ruled by Gelatinous Dodecahedron with a fair hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 26.701 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 government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education and Environment are also considered important, while Welfare and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Nucleus. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Point Blobian economy, worth an astonishing 17,520 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 656,188 Points, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of Points are being blown on orbital weapons development, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, much of Point Blob's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, and environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course. 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 294,205^th in the world and 3^rd in Wild Hunt for Lowest Crime Rates, with 1.52 law-abiding acts per hour.

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