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The Dominion of Root

“Root is God”

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The Dominion of Root is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Guru with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, compulsory vegetarianism, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 20.412 billion Rootians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Codebase. The average income tax rate is 76.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Rootian economy, worth a remarkable 2,696 trillion Euros 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 132,087 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Children are encouraged to fail at school so as not to appear too enlightened, emigrants arrive on foreign shores with nothing but pocket sand, a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight, and police officers have nearly cracked a major underage astronomy syndicate. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Root's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is CodeGods.

Root is ranked 97,107^th in the world and 14^th in The Cuckoos Egg for Highest Drug Use, scoring 74 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.

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