by Max Barry

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The Lonestar Republic of girlyboy texas is a massive, pleasant nation, ruled by Sheriff Bobby Bob-Jim Swisher with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 3.387 billion GirlyBoy Texasians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ospasm. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped GirlyBoy Texasian economy, worth 98.5 trillion Metrics of Exchange a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 29,073 Metrics of Exchange, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of GirlyBoy Texasian Embarrassments, the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions, morning coffees are no longer the same since the disappearance of newspapers, and tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the GirlyBoy Texas Blood Tithe. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. GirlyBoy Texas's national animal is the Capon and its national religion is Phallicadorationism.

GirlyBoy Texas is ranked 60,855th in the world and 1st in Texas Liberated At Last for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 2,407.25 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.

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