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“NUMBER 1# RATED SALESMAN 1997”

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The Free Land of SPAMTON 1997 is a huge, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 563 million NUMBER 2 SALESMEN have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cyber City. The average income tax rate is 13.2%.

The NUMBER 2 SALESMAN economy, worth 28.4 trillion Kromers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 50,428 Kromers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders, politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back, the Not a Tax Haven Foundation is the most popular charity, and drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. SPAMTON 1997's national animal is the Poppup, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

SPAMTON 1997 is ranked 258,665^th in the world and 44^th in Microsoft 365 for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.