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The Cheerleading Dominion of The Badgerette is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 42.153 billion Badgerettes are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense and Industry are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The all-consuming The Badgerette economy, worth a remarkable 4,700 trillion Pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 111,500 Pounds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 590,606 per year while the poor average 11,150, a ratio of 53.0 to 1.

City sidewalks are crowded with overweight people, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, armed police units patrol the roads late at night, and Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. The Badgerette's national animal is the Badger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Badgerette is ranked 62,773^rd in the world and 214^th in the Outback for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 11,298.86 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.