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The Empty Republic of Slae

“Woe Is The Gatherer”

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The Empty Republic of Slae is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Chancellor Solomon Lynch with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 18.503 billion Slaeans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Broken Promise. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Slaean economy, worth a remarkable 4,382 trillion Dinoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 236,852 Dinoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Laborers are building walls and making Wezeltonia pay for it, a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order, roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slae's national animal is the Vulture, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Lynchism.

Slae is ranked 18,458^th in the world and 2^nd in The New Commonwealth Society for Lowest Crime Rates, with 91.01 law-abiding acts per hour.

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