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Lowest Overall Tax Burden: 972ndLargest Insurance Industry: 1,391stLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 1,466th
The Kingdom of
Corporate Bordello
Free as the Sea
Influence
Power
Civil Rights
Average
Economy
All-Consuming
Political Freedom
Excellent

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St Edmund

Population38.03 billion

CapitalSaintedmundsport
LeaderKing Harold and the Witan
FaithChristianity

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Animaldolphin

The Kingdom of St Edmund is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Harold and the Witan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 38.03 billion St Edmundans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saintedmundsport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.1%.

The all-consuming St Edmundan economy, worth a remarkable 5,357 trillion marks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 140,886 marks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 849,127 per year while the poor average 10,513, a ratio of 80.8 to 1.

Collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, books are so highly regarded in St Edmund that libraries are often revered as holy shrines, vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. St Edmund's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Christianity.

St Edmund is ranked 43,741st in the world and 3rd in Conservative Paradise for Most Stationary, with 1,015.4825445352 days.

Top
1%
Lowest Overall Tax Burden: 972ndLargest Insurance Industry: 1,391stLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 1,466thMost Pro-Market: 1,833rdLargest Populations: 1,840thHighest Economic Output: 2,959thTop
5%
Highest Wealthy Incomes: 3,201stHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 3,273rdHighest Disposable Incomes: 3,526thLargest Gambling Industry: 4,576thLargest Publishing Industry: 4,629thLargest Cheese Export Sector: 5,503rdFattest Citizens: 6,126thRudest Citizens: 6,441stMost Cheerful Citizens: 7,063rdHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 12,488thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 13,613thTop
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Largest Soda Pop Sector: 15,409thLargest Agricultural Sector: 16,054thLargest Retail Industry: 16,140thSmartest Citizens: 19,024thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 20,995thMost World Assembly Endorsements: 23,984thHighest Average Incomes: 25,898thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 26,124th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Agricultural Sector.
  • : St Edmund's influence in Conservative Paradise fell from "Superpower" to "Power".
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Agricultural Sector.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Agricultural Sector.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Agricultural Sector.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Zombies.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Retail Industry.
  • : St Edmund was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.

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