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The Most Serene Musings of The Black Hawks Raconteur

“He speaks and I transcribe”

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The Most Serene Musings of The Black Hawks Raconteur is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 13.549 billion Black Hawks Raconteurians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 20.9%.

The Black Hawks Raconteurian economy, worth 693 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 51,153 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Black Hawks Raconteur's national animal is the Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Black Hawks Raconteur is ranked 130,697^th in the world and 6,159^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.66 law-abiding acts per hour.