The Tower of Gaan-telet is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.933 billion Gaan-teletians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Gaan-teletian economy, worth 588 trillion Golds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,183 Golds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 449,094 per year while the poor average 13,446, a ratio of 33.4 to 1.
Hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Gaan-telet's many privately-owned prisons, Gaan-teletians suffer not the eggplant emoji to live, CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, and orange is the new black for judicial robes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gaan-telet's national animal is the Boss, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Gaan-telet is ranked 165,100th in the world and 57th in Eientei Gensokyo for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 31.67 Effective Tax Rate.
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Gaan-telet was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.
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Gaan-telet, orange is the new black for judicial robes.
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Gaan-telet, CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show.
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Gaan-telet, Gaan-teletians suffer not the eggplant emoji to live.
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Gaan-telet was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes and the Top 10% for Most Developed and Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.
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Gaan-telet, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Gaan-telet's many privately-owned prisons.
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Gaan-telet, people are turning themselves into worm food.
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Gaan-telet, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool.
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Gaan-telet, the Small Council has more than a little influence.
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Gaan-telet, visitors to Gaan-telet are microchipped and must be escorted by a Gaan-teletian soldier - even to the bathroom.