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The Eastern Republic of Smokey Island

“The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons”

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The Eastern Republic of Smokey Island is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, national health service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 45.852 billion Smokey Islandians 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 medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Environment is ignored. The average income tax rate is 66.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Smokey Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 6,239 trillion smokey dollars a year, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 136,089 smokey dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Waste is frequently shipped to other countries, voting has become a nightmare since everyone keeps selecting "None of the above", same-sex marriages are increasingly common, and the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smokey Island's national animal is the ground hog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Smokey Island is ranked 31,801^st in the world and 340^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,475.8 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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