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The Overhead Wires of Trolley Buses Are Cool is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, keen interest in outer space, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 4.091 billion Trolley Buses Are Coolians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 48.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Trolley Buses Are Coolian economy, worth 333 trillion tickets 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. 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 81,450 tickets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, Trolley Buses Are Coolians are shown the peaceful ways of free trade by force, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trolley Buses Are Cool's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Trolley Buses Are Cool is ranked 97,154^th in the world and 10^th in Bus Stop for Most Developed, scoring 62.11 on the Human Development Index.