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The Black Sand Motorcycle Club of The Eltran

“Don't Tread on Any of Us”

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The Black Sand Motorcycle Club of The Eltran is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Jean Tonnerre with a fair hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.199 billion Trains live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eltran Point Harbor. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Trainiac economy, worth 505 trillion sand dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 120,329 sand dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 824,800 per year while the poor average 6,305, a ratio of 130 to 1.

College-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper, the typical murderer weighs 150kg and has hairy arms, a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate, and polygamy is legal. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Eltran's national animal is the gray wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Motorcyclism.

The Eltran is ranked 278,676^th in the world and 271^st in The League for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.93 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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