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The Caffeinated Code Powerhouse of Server Hamsters

“Mood: Give me Red Bull - I'm feeling lucky!”

Category: Iron Fist Consumerists
Civil Rights:
Few
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Few

Regional Influence: Ambassador

Location: Testregionia

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Server Hamsters

Population24.891 billion

CapitalRabbit
LeaderViolet
FaithPerl

CurrencyBit
AnimalByte

The Caffeinated Code Powerhouse of Server Hamsters is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Violet with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.891 billion Hamsters are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rabbit. The average income tax rate is 59.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hamstersian economy, worth a remarkable 2,298 trillion Bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 92,356 Bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Teachers regularly paddle unruly students, a PhD just ain't what it used to be, citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, and the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Server Hamsters's national animal is the Byte, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Perl.

Server Hamsters is ranked 85,563rd in the world and 25th in Testregionia for Largest Governments, scoring 17.92 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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Largest Black Market: 7,000thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 7,073rdMost Stationary: 9,964thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 9,989thLargest Populations: 10,708thHighest Economic Output: 11,646thMost Avoided: 14,093rdTop
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Most Devout: 20,741stMost World Assembly Endorsements: 21,537thMost Influential: 23,756thLargest Information Technology Sector: 25,577thMost Corrupt Governments: 26,649thMost Advanced Public Education: 26,925thMost Subsidized Industry: 27,001stLargest Mining Sector: 28,790thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 31,859th
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Most Stationary: 4th in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 4th in the regionMost World Assembly Endorsements: 4th in the region

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