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The Terrible Swift Sword of Soqa

“Skin on skin, let the love begin”

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The Terrible Swift Sword of Soqa is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 21.843 billion Soqans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 50.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Soqan economy, worth a remarkable 1,314 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 60,193 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soqa is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, people boast about their low income on their dating profiles, and politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soqa's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Soqa is ranked 42,191^st in the world and 1^st in Marxist leninist party for Most Beautiful Environments, with 730.88 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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