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The нσησяαвℓє ѕυρєяνιѕσяѕ of The Ranch High Council

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The нσησяαвℓє ѕυρєяνιѕσяѕ of The Ranch High Council is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Grant MacDonald with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, fear of technology, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.305 billion Ranch High Councilians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Spirituality, Law & Order, and Industry also on the agenda, while Education and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cape Ram. The average income tax rate is 13.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ranch High Councilian economy, worth 327 trillion Succs 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Gambling, and Soda Sales. 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 an impressive 142,292 Succs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, children often kick Rams for amusement, the legal profession considers itself above the law, and the act of reporting blasphemy is known as 'Orthodoxxing'. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Ranch High Council's national animal is the Ram, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ranch.

The Ranch High Council is ranked 46,624^th in the world and 13^th in The Cult of PCHS for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 222,762 Standard Monetary Units.

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