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The Loving Couple of Too-ManyOptions- is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Captain Avery with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.771 billion Too-ManyOptions-ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snowy Rib Cage. The average income tax rate is 52.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Too-ManyOptions-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,310 trillion snails 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. 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 134,116 snails, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule, every worker receives exactly the same pay regardless of productivity, the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Too-ManyOptions-ian Navy, and TM-SPAN features senators wrestling with ever-increasing production elements. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Too-ManyOptions-'s national animal is the owl and its national religion is Cards.

Too-ManyOptions- is ranked 54,707^th in the world and 1^st in Lightyears Away for Most Developed, scoring 76.1 on the Human Development Index.