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Largest Gambling Industry: 162ndHighest Wealthy Incomes: 193rdLargest Soda Pop Sector: 386th
The Free Land of
Compulsory Consumerist State Consumerist Wage Drones
Choice. The problem is choice.
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Pod U-77

Population4.982 billion

CurrencyThe Pods
AnimalThe Pods

The Free Land of Pod U-77 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, complete lack of prisons, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 4.982 billion Pod U-77ians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Healthcare, Defense, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Law & Order is ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Pod U-77ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,045 trillion The Pods a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Gambling, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 410,592 The Pods, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,679,337 per year while the poor average 5,894, a ratio of 624 to 1.

Mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, the fate of the world literally rests on Leader's fingers, many are questioning Leader wearing an Eckie-Ecola baseball cap during a keynote speech, and Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Pod U-77's national animal is the The Pods, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pod U-77 is ranked 1,668th in the world and 32nd in Poetry for Most Patriotic, with 110.95 flags saluted per person per day.

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Largest Gambling Industry: 162ndHighest Wealthy Incomes: 193rdLargest Soda Pop Sector: 386thHighest Crime Rates: 457thLargest Retail Industry: 471stMost Subsidized Industry: 547thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 560thMost Efficient Economies: 665thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 786thLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 881stGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 896thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 930thLargest Agricultural Sector: 962ndMost Armed: 981stMost Rebellious Youth: 1,023rdHighest Average Incomes: 1,176thMost Cheerful Citizens: 1,222ndLargest Cheese Export Sector: 1,272ndNudest: 1,329thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1,576thHighest Drug Use: 1,619thMost Patriotic: 1,668thFattest Citizens: 1,878thMost Cultured: 1,948thMost Avoided: 2,052ndMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 2,175thMost Ignorant Citizens: 2,733rdRudest Citizens: 2,848thLargest Mining Sector: 2,932ndHighest Disposable Incomes: 2,980thTop
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Most Inclusive: 3,561stHighest Food Quality: 3,663rdLargest Black Market: 4,518thMost Corrupt Governments: 4,711thLargest Welfare Programs: 4,849thNicest Citizens: 5,244thLargest Governments: 5,301stMost Secular: 6,264thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 6,393rdMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 8,278thMost Compassionate Citizens: 8,586thMost Advanced Public Transport: 8,620thLargest Insurance Industry: 10,095thHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 10,527thLargest Publishing Industry: 11,044thMost Scientifically Advanced: 12,148thHighest Economic Output: 13,767thTop
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Largest Information Technology Sector: 18,638thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 22,794thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 22,852ndMost Pro-Market: 26,395th
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Most Avoided: 1st in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 1st in the regionTop
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Most Armed: 4th in the regionHighest Drug Use: 4th in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 6th in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 6th in the regionTop
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Largest Insurance Industry: 13th in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 16th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, many are questioning Leader wearing an Eckie-Ecola baseball cap during a keynote speech.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, the fate of the world literally rests on Leader's fingers.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, the Great Pod U-77ian Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, workers can choose whether they prefer offices that smell of pungent body odor or whale vomit.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true.
  • : Following new legislation in Pod U-77, people are bored of easy crossword puzzles.

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