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“This house was empty, the trees moved in and so did we”

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The Sparkling Cleanliness of Soapstone Junimos is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 7.705 billion Soapstone Junimosians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Soapstone Junimosian economy, worth 287 trillion francs 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Tourism, 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 37,295 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland, the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists, and pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soapstone Junimos's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soapstone Junimos is ranked 318,561^st in the world and 2^nd in Stellar Fields for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -89.34 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.