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““I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.””

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The SXUM of X SQUAD is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 6.656 billion X Bots are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SKUM Xity. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish X SQUADian economy, worth 212 trillion Xark-ZucKoB0ts 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 Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, 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 31,875 Xark-ZucKoB0ts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Turning the other cheek is accompanied by a polite letter of complaint, a small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went, town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, and viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. X SQUAD's national animal is the Xhrew, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is X on a X.

X SQUAD is ranked 237,896^th in the world and 1^st in Christmas Future for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 34.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.