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The StrexCorp owned town of Tempest Bluffs is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Kevin F Price with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 7.146 billion Bluffians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fresh Lake City. The average income tax rate is 56.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Blufficratic economy, worth 537 trillion sands a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 75,243 sands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days, newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs, and if someone says there's plenty of living space in Tempest Bluffs they're lyin'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tempest Bluffs's national animal is the Strexpet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Smiling God Miles.

Tempest Bluffs is ranked 93,643^rd in the world and 12^th in Caer Sidi for Highest Average Incomes, with 75,243.47 Standard Monetary Units.