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The Queen's State of Zebedee

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The Queen's State of Zebedee is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 22.162 billion Zebedeeans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The large, moralistic, pro-business government is dominated by the Department of Law & Order, with Environment, Education, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Welfare isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.8%.

The very strong Zebedeean economy, worth 868 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 39,177 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 133,045 per year while the poor average 8,511, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, thieves are flogged in public for their crimes, and Zebedee has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Zebedee's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zebedee is ranked 93,712^th in the world and 2^nd in Kingstown for Most Corrupt Governments, with 15.29 kickbacks per hour.

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