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The Purple flowers of Purple 9

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The Purple flowers of Purple 9 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Purple with an iron fist, and notable for its ritual sacrifices, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.849 billion Purple 9ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flowerville. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Purple 9ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,644 trillion Petals a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 243,747 Petals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Gun ownership is compulsory, golden statues of Honey bees line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District, Flowerville's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, and pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple 9's national animal is the Honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Purple.

Purple 9 is ranked 15,604^th in the world and 92^nd in Nerdlandia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.6 law-abiding acts per hour.

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