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The Zerphen's Rock of Rock Pumice is a mammoth, genial nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and unlimited-speed roads. The cynical, devout population of 7.219 billion Rock Pumiceans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Policy, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 49.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Rock Pumicean economy, worth 277 trillion zecks 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 38,485 zecks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, and pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rock Pumice's national animal is the boulder, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Rock Pumice is ranked 102,087^th in the world and 2^nd in My Cool Rocks for Highest Poor Incomes, with 30,156.92 Standard Monetary Units.