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The City-State of Rho Ophiuchi

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The City-State of Rho Ophiuchi is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Corporations with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cheerful population of 6.475 billion Rho Ophiuchians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Defense, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Environment and Law & Order aren't funded at all. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Rho Ophiuchian economy, worth a remarkable 2,930 trillion Kilograms of Iron a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 452,646 Kilograms of Iron, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,256,136 per year while the poor average 20,267, a ratio of 160 to 1.

You can be fired for dyeing grey hairs, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, and autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Rho Ophiuchi's national animal is the Rotifer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Rho Ophiuchi is ranked 291,898^th in the world and 4,101^st in the Pacific for Safest, scoring 1.82 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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