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The Gaping Maw of Sar Chasm

“A motto? Really?”

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The Gaping Maw of Sar Chasm is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Czar Cassim with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 31.592 billion Sar Chastics 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 41.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Sar Chasmian economy, worth a remarkable 4,330 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 137,084 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Workers have their fruitcake and eat it too, a byzantine web of conspiracies and secret alliances must be navigated any time legislation is voted upon, many aides in Czar Cassim's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, and bald-headed monks sit around the National Meditation Park looking smugly content. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Sar Chasm's national animal is the giraffe, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is irony.

Sar Chasm is ranked 219,121^st in the world and 11^th in Seven To Many for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -5.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.

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