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The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ground Zero. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Issues Test Bedian economy, worth a remarkable 2,095 trillion Silver Dollars a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 92,278 Silver Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 590,194 per year while the poor average 5,907, a ratio of 99.9 to 1.

Women give birth underneath so many blankets that the doctor can't feel the bump, pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, and nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Issues Test Bed's national animal is the Alaskan Malamute, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

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