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The Community of The Outskirts Wiki is a massive, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.515 billion Outskirtsters are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 42.2%.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Outskirts Wikian economy, worth 56.1 trillion Dubloons 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 37,025 Dubloons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery, the news is showing footage of Leader bullying an old man to the point of tears, and the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Outskirts Wiki's national animal is the Animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Outskirts Wiki is ranked 270,893^rd in the world and 1^st in The Ferry for Most Developed, scoring 50.78 on the Human Development Index.