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The Collective Knowledge of The Local Authority is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by a rotating crew of civil servants with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.94 billion clerks love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Attitude City. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant bureaucratic economy, worth 232 trillion World Assembly recommendations a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 21,229 World Assembly recommendations, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, and government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Local Authority's national animal is the SimpleBot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is testing in production.

The Local Authority is ranked 212,085^th in the world and 197^th in Refugia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 20,185.39 Standard Monetary Units.