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The United States of Zolotaya Sobaka

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The United States of Zolotaya Sobaka is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Many with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.665 billion Zolotayans 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Fortunas. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zolotaya Sobakan economy, worth a remarkable 1,350 trillion Solars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,649 Solars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes, and it is said that a Zolotaya Sobakan woman's work is never done. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zolotaya Sobaka's national animal is the Golden Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Omnism.

Zolotaya Sobaka is ranked 7,646^th in the world and 1^st in Grand Ole Republic for Lowest Crime Rates, with 106.5 law-abiding acts per hour.

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