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The Republic of Popular and Powerful 9

“I love 9003”

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The Republic of Popular and Powerful 9 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.416 billion Popular and Powerful 9ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Popular and Powerful 9ian economy, worth 479 trillion 9003s 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 a large, well-organized black market in Book Publishing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 108,492 9003s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, vote-counting is replacing kitchen patrol as the least glamorous army work, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and the government has enacted freedom of information. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Popular and Powerful 9's national animal is the 9003, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Popular and Powerful 9 is ranked 32,570^th in the world and 265^th in Eye for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.24 law-abiding acts per hour.

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