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The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandria Innovation of Knowledge. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Compound Light Microscopean economy, worth a remarkable 1,562 trillion Diamond Rings a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,935 Diamond Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats, trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, centuries-old legal documents detailing agnatic-cognatic gavelkind succession are being dusted off again, and farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Compound Light Microscope's national animal is the Majestic Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Compound Light Microscope is ranked 289,839^th in the world and 6^th in Copernicus for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 2,590.83 Standard Monetary Units.