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The Cytokine Storm of Test Boat 30

“Stock up on puppets while you still can!”

Category: Corporate Police State
Civil Rights:
Few
Economy:
Very Strong
Political Freedoms:
Rare

Regional Influence: Apprentice

Location: The Transitionists

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Test Boat 30

Population9.847 billion

Currencygreat wall
Animalgagaggaga

The Cytokine Storm of Test Boat 30 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its burgeoning gagaggaga population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.847 billion Test Boat 30ians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.4%.

The very strong Test Boat 30ian economy, worth 502 trillion great walls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 51,036 great walls, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 170,291 per year while the poor average 11,383, a ratio of 15.0 to 1.

Wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them, the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs, 9 out of 10 consumers think that vitamins can cure cancer, and punitive tariffs protect local industry. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Test Boat 30's national animal is the gagaggaga.

Test Boat 30 is ranked 86,625th in the world and 77th in The Transitionists for Most Primitive, scoring 19.49 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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10%
Most Ignorant Citizens: 27,272nd
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5%
Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 11th in the regionTop
10%
Most Corrupt Governments: 17th in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 19th in the regionHighest Economic Output: 20th in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 23rd in the region

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