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The Final American Republic of Swastikan

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The Final American Republic of Swastikan is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Fleet Admiral George D Roosevelt with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.236 billion New Provinencials are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, with Education, Defense, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of None. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.4%.

The frighteningly efficient a Provenencial economy, worth 751 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 177,445 Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 605,667 per year while the poor average 38,255, a ratio of 15.8 to 1.

Pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil, roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, the nation is devoted to world peas, and minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Swastikan's national animal is the None, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Athiesm.

Swastikan is ranked 2,177^th in the world and 1^st in The Interdimensional Community for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.68 law-abiding acts per hour.

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