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Largest Retail Industry: 2,121stMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 2,304thMost Avoided: 2,693rd
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A Giant Meteor

Population9.586 billion

CapitalToutatis
LeaderHalley Comet
FaithFollowers of the Feature

CurrencyLodestone
AnimalAmeoba

The Featured Region Event of A Giant Meteor is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Halley Comet with an iron fist, and notable for its lack of airports, unlimited-speed roads, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.586 billion Meteorians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toutatis. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Meteorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,746 trillion Lodestones a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 182,178 Lodestones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Doctors fax when they need facts fast, workers have their fruitcake and eat it too, more than one company makes the board game Monopoly, and administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Giant Meteor's national animal is the Ameoba, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Feature.

A Giant Meteor is ranked 305,296th in the world and 2nd in Asteroids for Most Cultured, scoring 4 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

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Largest Retail Industry: 2,121stMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 2,304thMost Avoided: 2,693rdFattest Citizens: 2,704thLargest Black Market: 2,819thMost Corrupt Governments: 3,063rdTop
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Most Secular: 3,139thLargest Mining Sector: 3,178thMost Advanced Public Education: 6,576thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 7,174thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 11,069thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 11,985thHighest Poor Incomes: 12,902ndHighest Average Incomes: 13,079thHighest Economic Output: 14,713thTop
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Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 17,588thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 17,654thMost Subsidized Industry: 17,946thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 18,925thMost Developed: 25,711thHighest Average Tax Rates: 26,374thLargest Information Technology Sector: 27,507thLargest Governments: 28,853rd

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