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The Community of Two Pickles is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 302 million Pickles are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish pickle economy, worth 9.22 trillion Pickles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 30,514 Pickles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act, and the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Two Pickles's national animal is the Blåhaj, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Two Pickles is ranked 309,342^nd in the world and 5,045^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -9.9 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.