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“This house was empty, the trees moved in and so did we”

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The Perfect Crystals of Quartz Junimos is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 7.711 billion Quartz Junimosians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Quartz Junimosian economy, worth 765 trillion dollars 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 Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. 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 99,295 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey, serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed, and government buildings are being cleansed of anything that might have racist connotations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quartz Junimos's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Quartz Junimos is ranked 19,975^th in the world and 1^st in The fields of Marijuana for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,344.2 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.