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The Blind Nomads of Squints In The Sun is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Sunny Day with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-working population of 22.465 billion Squinters 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 tiny government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The thriving Squints In The Sunian economy, worth a remarkable 1,813 trillion shades a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 80,739 shades, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 233,493 per year while the poor average 22,137, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Walls don't have ears, weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, and diplomacy is a foreign concept to Squinters. Crime is moderate. Squints In The Sun's national animal is the camel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is sun worship.

Squints In The Sun is ranked 25,644^th in the world and 6^th in Seven To Many for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 6,521.15 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.