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The Locomotive of Train is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Casey Jones with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 31.792 billion engineers 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the City of New Orleans. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient railway economy, worth a remarkable 4,963 trillion couplers 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. 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 156,127 couplers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Nine-year-olds are discovering that they can grow gardens in real life too, men are enrolling into lady etiquette courses, petting zoos have loose fingers strewn about, and tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Train's national animal is the iron horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unstoppable.

Train is ranked 246,540^th in the world and 30^th in Seinfeld for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.