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Most Subsidized Industry: 471stMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 513thLargest Mining Sector: 970th
The Daily Wanderings of
Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors
Anyone Seen A Carrot?
Influence
Minnow
Region
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Few

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Featured Hopper

Population6.965 billion

CapitalCarrot City
Leaderthat scwewy wabbit

Currencycarrot
Animalhopper

The Daily Wanderings of Featured Hopper is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by that scwewy wabbit with an iron fist, and remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.965 billion Featured Hoppers 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carrot City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Hopperian economy, worth a remarkable 1,759 trillion carrots 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 252,606 carrots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,099,742 per year while the poor average 36,724, a ratio of 29.9 to 1.

Science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged, and students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Featured Hopper's national animal is the hopper, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Featured Hopper is ranked 239,198th in the world and 13th in Glass Gallows for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 20,208.52 Standard Monetary Units.

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Most Subsidized Industry: 471stMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 513thLargest Mining Sector: 970thLargest Retail Industry: 1,891stHighest Wealthy Incomes: 2,135thLargest Black Market: 2,483rdMost Corrupt Governments: 2,842ndTop
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Most Efficient Economies: 3,410thMost Patriotic: 3,527thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 3,670thMost Avoided: 4,066thMost Armed: 4,693rdLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 4,714thFattest Citizens: 4,726thMost Primitive: 4,765thHighest Average Incomes: 5,258thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 6,514thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 7,418thLargest Governments: 7,452ndRudest Citizens: 7,648thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 8,192ndHighest Average Tax Rates: 8,653rdMost Devout: 10,267thNudest: 12,500thMost Ignorant Citizens: 12,869thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 14,325thTop
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Highest Economic Output: 14,936thLowest Crime Rates: 17,056thMost Advanced Public Education: 25,065th
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Largest Mining Sector: 1st in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1st in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 1st in the regionMost Conservative: 1st in the regionMost Devout: 1st in the regionMost Armed: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1st in the regionLargest Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionMost Patriotic: 1st in the regionTop
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Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 2nd in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 2nd in the region

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