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Highest Drug Use: 2,681stMost Income Equality: 4,298thLargest Populations: 18,582nd
The DEN Station of
Left-wing Utopia Utopia
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Shoeshiner
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World Benchmark
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Basket Case
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Desert Radio

Population18.588 billion

Currencyradio 📻
Animalcamel 🐫

The DEN Station of Desert Radio is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 18.588 billion Cameloans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Desert Radioan economy, worth 173 trillion radio 📻s 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. 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 9,329 radio 📻s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, all recreational drugs are legal, refugees from other nations are flocking to Desert Radio's border, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied radio camel. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Desert Radio's national animal is the camel 🐫, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Desert Radio is ranked 102,276th in the world and 7th in desert for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.57 law-abiding acts per hour.

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Highest Drug Use: 2,681stTop
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Most Income Equality: 4,298thTop
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Largest Populations: 18,582ndLeast Corrupt Governments: 20,785th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Desert Radio was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
  • : Desert Radio was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
  • : Desert Radio's influence in Desert rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
  • : Desert Radio's influence in Desert rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
  • : Desert Radio was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens.
  • : Desert Radio's influence in Desert rose from "Zero" to "Minnow".
  • : Desert Radio altered its national flag.
  • : Desert Radio changed its national animal to "camel 🐫", its currency to "radio 📻", and its demonym to "Cameloan".
  • : Desert Radio altered its national flag.
  • : Desert Radio relocated from Osiris to Desert.

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