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The Republic of Tent Island

“You ain't nothin' but a...you know”

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The Republic of Tent Island is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The humorless, devout population of 6.903 billion Tent Islandians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Tent Islandian economy, worth 926 trillion Pounds 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 impressive 134,203 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath, the government has granted that two plus two makes four, and citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tent Island's national animal is the Hound Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tent Island is ranked 250,004^th in the world and 309^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Primitive, scoring -151.43 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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