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The United Socialist States of Gillscalia

“By the Eastern Dragon, we shall rise to the occasion”

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The United Socialist States of Gillscalia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Kaito Gillscale with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.994 billion Gillscalians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dragon's Horde. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gillscalian economy, worth 571 trillion scales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 142,986 scales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers, the nation was recently voted "most likely to betray its allies", scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape. Crime is totally unknown. Gillscalia's national animal is the Black-tip Reef Shark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Gillscalia is ranked 9,299^th in the world and 172^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 422.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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