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The Trodden-On House of Provinceopolis

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The Trodden-On House of Provinceopolis is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Quincy MacTrebuchet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, unlimited-speed roads, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.464 billion Provinceopoli are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Quincy MacTrebuchets bed. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Provinceopolonian economy, worth 254 trillion liberty vouchers a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 173,861 liberty vouchers, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,049,761 per year while the poor average 12,917, a ratio of 81.3 to 1.

Children are seen fighting in the playground for bread scraps that fall out of diamond-encrusted lunchboxes, all tariffs have been abolished, infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark, and musicians are often arrested for saying "oh my God". Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Provinceopolis's national animal is the bemused libertarian, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Wealth Gaps.

Provinceopolis is ranked 40,867^th in the world and 240^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 31.85 flags saluted per person per day.

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