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The Loving Couple of ThanksTo Them

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The Loving Couple of ThanksTo Them is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Park with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.937 billion ThanksTo Themians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gravesfield. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.7%.

The frighteningly efficient ThanksTo Themian economy, worth 541 trillion snails 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 black market in Information Technology, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 109,589 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 316,013 per year while the poor average 30,168, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State, adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children, and dream holidays often go awry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ThanksTo Them's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

ThanksTo Them is ranked 27,747^th in the world and 14^th in Antarctica for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,429.85 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.

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