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The Freeloading Freebooter of Valkyrie Reborn

“...than Serve in Heaven”

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The Freeloading Freebooter of Valkyrie Reborn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Cpt Valentine Morrison with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 17.423 billion Privateers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry and Administration are also considered important, while Law & Order and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Command Bridge. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Crew economy, worth a remarkable 3,840 trillion Shares a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 220,415 Shares, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,018,477 per year while the poor average 2,578, a ratio of 782 to 1.

A milk bath costs more than bathing in money, the space program has been reduced to Cpt Valentine Morrison's nephew playing with a cardboard space shuttle, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the Freeloading Freebooter. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Valkyrie Reborn's national animal is the Space-Monkey, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Cult of Cthulhu.

Valkyrie Reborn is ranked 363^rd in the world and 4^th in The Bar on the corner of every region for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 29,833.14 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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