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The Colony of Ump129

“Things fall apart”

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The Colony of Ump129 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.811 billion Ump129ians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ump129ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,042 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 216,693 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, and city workers have declared that rolling markets aren't good for business after all. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump129's national animal is the Black Widow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ump129 is ranked 20,838^th in the world and 1,503^rd in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.05 law-abiding acts per hour.

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