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The Colony of Slashpine Republic is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 25.774 billion Slashpine Republicans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Slashpine Republican economy, worth a remarkable 1,560 trillion florins 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. 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 60,559 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal, the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children, and copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slashpine Republic's national animal is the slash pine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Slashpine Republic is ranked 178,499^th in the world and 5^th in Conifer for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 110.97 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.