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The Delight of Racoda

“Now with 100% free-range hamster”

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The Delight of Racoda is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Rudolph with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate population of 19.614 billion Racodans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Racoda City. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Racodan economy, worth a remarkable 2,223 trillion cookies a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,381 cookies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only Rudolph's friends count in the eyes of the government, children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-cookie mansions, and foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with Rudolph. Crime is totally unknown. Racoda's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Racoda is ranked 314,811^th in the world and 5,910^th in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -16.37 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.

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