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The Deep Black Canyon of Rocke Bottom

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The Deep Black Canyon of Rocke Bottom is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Underbelly with an even hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, parental licensing program, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, hard-working population of 17.676 billion Rocke Bottomers have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Downunder City. The average income tax rate is 52.4%.

The all-consuming Rocke Bottomian economy, worth a remarkable 1,126 trillion rockes 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, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. 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 63,724 rockes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies, motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and tax avoidance is a serious affair. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Rocke Bottom's national animal is the Rocke lobster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Rocke Bottom is ranked 233,003^rd in the world and 11^th in Freshness for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.76 bananas ingested per day.

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