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The Free Land of Rlim Shaikorth

“The Falcon Cannot Hear The Falconer”

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The Free Land of Rlim Shaikorth is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, triple-decker prams, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.02 billion Rlim Shaikorthians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Rlim Shaikorthian economy, worth 598 trillion bolivar soberanoes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 148,809 bolivar soberanoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 483,270 per year while the poor average 34,549, a ratio of 14.0 to 1.

Door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls, military funding has been stripped back, and the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rlim Shaikorth's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rlim Shaikorth is ranked 206,538^th in the world and 102^nd in Eye for Most Pacifist, with 46.57 cheeks turned per day.

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