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The Allied States of Smoking Tomb

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The Allied States of Smoking Tomb is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Poet with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 11.846 billion Smoking Tombians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mad. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Smoking Tombian economy, worth 175 trillion Mad houses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 14,798 Mad houses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, and schoolchildren are taught to boo and hiss at The Poet's name. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smoking Tomb's national animal is the Mad man, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Madness.

Smoking Tomb is ranked 84,299^th in the world and 24^th in Mum for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.95 law-abiding acts per hour.