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The Spiders of Purple Mage

“Zane Grey, forgive the Pun”

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The Spiders of Purple Mage is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, complete lack of public education, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 33.221 billion Mages are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The minute, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense is also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.9%.

The frighteningly efficient the Purple Mage economy, worth a remarkable 4,241 trillion Yellow Venoms a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 127,669 Yellow Venoms, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 643,398 per year while the poor average 14,132, a ratio of 45.5 to 1.

Abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, the government seizes all major gold finds, Harry Potter books are banned, and senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Purple Mage's national animal is the Purple Spider, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Purple Mage is ranked 274,309^th in the world and 9,793^rd in Osiris for Nicest Citizens, with 0.48 average smiles per day.

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