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The Middle of The World of Pickles

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The Middle of The World of Pickles is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Mr Pickle3009 with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, unlimited-speed roads, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.645 billion Pickles are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pickleselria. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pickle economy, worth a remarkable 1,168 trillion Muns 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Soda Sales, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 amazing 251,648 Muns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, Mr Pickle3009 reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes, giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Mr Pickle3009 is a silly poophead, and after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The World of Pickles's national animal is the reindeer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The World of Pickles is ranked 293,694^th in the world and 2^nd in The Coalition of Independent Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3.24 law-abiding acts per hour.

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