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The A Clockwork Orange of Your Humble Narrator Alex

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The A Clockwork Orange of Your Humble Narrator Alex is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Anthony Burgess with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, rampant corporate plagiarism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 27.357 billion Your Humble Narrator Alexians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clockwork Orange. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Your Humble Narrator Alexian economy, worth a remarkable 8,849 trillion Nadsats a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 323,500 Nadsats, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,399,351 per year while the poor average 12,982, a ratio of 184 to 1.

Computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, binoculars sales are at an all-time high, the army consists of only generals and grunts, and internet sites are legally unable to stop their users from posting pornography. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Your Humble Narrator Alex's national animal is the Droog, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Your Humble Narrator Alex is ranked 630^th in the world and 24^th in NationStates for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 21,202.19 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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