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The Allied States of Something Random

“No motto is the best motto. Wait ...”

Category: Corporate Bordello
Civil Rights:
Very Good
Economy:
Thriving
Political Freedoms:
Superb

Regional Influence: Nipper

Location: the Pacific

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Something Random

Population1.391 billion

CurrencyMonies
AnimalAnimal

The Allied States of Something Random is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 1.391 billion Something Randomians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The thriving Something Randomian economy, worth 100 trillion Monieses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 72,237 Monieses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 228,900 per year while the poor average 17,385, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

The only movement outdoors is of ramen-delivery drones, mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, and Something Random has designated Something Random City as its capital city. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Something Random's national animal is the Animal, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Something Random is ranked 204,529th in the world and 1,771st in the Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

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Largest Insurance Industry: 4,562ndLowest Overall Tax Burden: 7,028thFattest Citizens: 11,106thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 11,669thLargest Retail Industry: 13,719thTop
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Highest Disposable Incomes: 20,492nd
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Largest Insurance Industry: 67th in the regionLowest Overall Tax Burden: 85th in the regionFattest Citizens: 134th in the regionLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 152nd in the regionTop
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Highest Crime Rates: 190th in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 210th in the regionHighest Disposable Incomes: 227th in the regionMost Pro-Market: 258th in the regionMost Avoided: 265th in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 290th in the regionMost Politically Free: 292nd in the regionRudest Citizens: 307th in the region
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