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The Commonwealth of Safari Joe

“What is this a hookah bar for ants?”

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The Commonwealth of Safari Joe is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by El Presidente with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 7.088 billion Safari Joeans 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Safari Joe Does it Again. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Safari Joean economy, worth 563 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 79,444 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore, and doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Safari Joe's national animal is the thundercat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Safari Joe is ranked 57,935^th in the world and 585^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,397.27 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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