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The Freezing Southern Rock of Southern Rock

“Who turned the heat down?”

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The Freezing Southern Rock of Southern Rock is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The Rock with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.243 billion Southern Rockians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rock City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Southern Rockian economy, worth a remarkable 1,395 trillion Pebbles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 266,167 Pebbles, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

A few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to The Rock, black tea is only available on the black market, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, and the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern Rock's national animal is the Pet Rock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Rock Music.

Southern Rock is ranked 4,779^th in the world and 1^st in Nerdlandia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 117.54 law-abiding acts per hour.

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