The People's Republic of Bargea is a very large, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 175 million Bargeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient Bargean economy, worth 8.54 trillion clonts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 48,800 clonts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bargea's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Bargea is ranked 51,441st in the world and 9th in Arborhaven for Smartest Citizens, with 41.6 quips per hour.
National Happenings
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Bargea, there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days.
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Bargea, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber.
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Bargea, it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt.
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Bargea was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Compassionate Citizens and Nicest Citizens.
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Bargea, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common.
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Bargea, therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads.
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Bargea, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp.
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Bargea, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers.
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Bargea, stolen Reuben sandwiches are met with detailed and thorough police investigations.
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Bargea, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard.
World Assembly
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