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The Watchfires of Wood-7

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The Watchfires of Wood-7 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, devout population of 20.907 billion Wood-7ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Wood-7ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,934 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 92,508 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet, sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, rocket boots and thermal detonators have become standard-issue military gear, and replacement organs are grown in vats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wood-7's national animal is the swordfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Wood-7 is ranked 213,124^th in the world and 1^st in Communist Party Central for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.47 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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