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The State of Ottepen

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The State of Ottepen is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 17.302 billion Ottepenians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Ottepenian economy, worth 144 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 8,376 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Ottepenian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, daily newspapers are permitted to run only pro-government stories, Ottepen has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Ottepen in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ottepen's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ottepen is ranked 290,417^th in the world and 7^th in Seri Begawan for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 2,328.77 Standard Monetary Units.

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