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The Publishing Empire of The Storm Bulletin

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The Publishing Empire of The Storm Bulletin is a massive, pleasant nation, ruled by Idinist Imauggland with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.531 billion newspaper editors for the Storm Bulletin are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government prioritizes Administration, although Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lightningville. The average income tax rate is 18.6%.

The Storm Bulletin Publishing economy, worth 128 trillion newspapers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is 50,798 newspapers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, and EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Storm Bulletin's national animal is the paper ink squid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is The Publishing Cult.

The Storm Bulletin is ranked 182,074^th in the world and 2^nd in Idinistia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 58.25 law-abiding acts per hour.

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