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The Federation of Polling Booths

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The Federation of Polling Booths is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Pollster with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, ubiquitous missile silos, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.002 billion Polling Boothsians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Poll Booth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 88.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Polling Boothsian economy, worth a remarkable 4,651 trillion Electoral Roles a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 244,815 Electoral Roles, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.

Looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, everybody's got wood thanks to The Pollster, many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive", and computers are allowed but only just. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Polling Booths's national animal is the Ballot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Polling.

Polling Booths is ranked 281,088^th in the world and 1,265^th in Europeia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -87.19 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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