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“One Last Light”

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The Third Republic of Sathor is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Vela with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 9.1 billion Sathorians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arava. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sathorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,617 trillion Sathorian lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 177,760 Sathorian lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Appliance stores are finding spy cameras embedded in their unboxed merchandise, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Sathor, the new universal healthcare system has been dubbed President Vela-care by its detractors, and the alien invasion siren sounds eerily like a UFO. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sathor's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sathor is ranked 297,290^th in the world and 3,256^th in the Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 7,288.17 Standard Monetary Units.