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Highest Workforce Participation Rate: 8,750thLargest Populations: 28,150thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 29,321st
The Ethnic Cleansing of
Moralistic Democracy
[7] Just waiting for LA to fall into the ocean
Bill Hicks
Influence
Ambassador
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Strong
Political Freedom
Very Good

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Arizona Bay

Population14.379 billion

CapitalThe Soggy Ruins of LA
LeaderBill Hicks

Currencysomething
Animalsomething else

The Ethnic Cleansing of Arizona Bay is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, ruled by Bill Hicks with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 14.379 billion Arizona Bayians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Soggy Ruins of LA. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.5%.

The strong Arizona Bayian economy, worth 795 trillion somethings 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. 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 55,291 somethings, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 289,434 per year while the poor average 5,666, a ratio of 51.1 to 1.

Everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force, and foreign leaders who don't applaud Bill Hicks's speeches are regarded as enemies of Arizona Bay. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arizona Bay's national animal is the something else, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Arizona Bay is ranked 164,498th in the world and 2nd in Nomadic Cultures of Steppe for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.76 law-abiding acts per hour.

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Largest Populations: 28,150thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 29,321st

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