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The Republic of SIMERINGI

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The Republic of SIMERINGI is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Wielki Simering with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 12.487 billion SIMERINGIS are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SIMERINGI City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The frighteningly efficient SIMERINGIian economy, worth a remarkable 5,000 trillion plns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 400,495 plns, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,281,970 per year while the poor average 94,976, a ratio of 13.5 to 1.

Major boxing matches are held in government buildings, condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget. Crime is totally unknown. SIMERINGI's national animal is the squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

SIMERINGI is ranked 9,466^th in the world and 491^st in Osiris for Healthiest Citizens, with 15.17 bananas ingested per day.

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