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The Republic of Townsvalley

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The Republic of Townsvalley is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.472 billion Citizens are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 9.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Townsvalleyian economy, worth 492 trillion Hektes 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, quite specialized black market in Retail and Uranium Mining. 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 65,854 Hektes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thieves are flogged in public for their crimes, museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market, and worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Townsvalley's national animal is the Markhor, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Townsvalley is ranked 268,047^th in the world and 12,123^rd in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring -7.07 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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