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Most Subsidized Industry: 472ndMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 515thLargest Mining Sector: 971st
The Daily Wanderings of
Iron Fist Consumerists
Anyone Seen A Carrot?
Influence
Apprentice
Region
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Few

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Featured Hopper

Population6.979 billion

CapitalCarrot City
Leaderthat scwewy wabbit

Currencycarrot
Animalhopper

The Daily Wanderings of Featured Hopper is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by that scwewy wabbit with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.979 billion Featured Hoppers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carrot City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Hopperian economy, worth a remarkable 1,762 trillion carrots 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 252,606 carrots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,099,742 per year while the poor average 36,724, a ratio of 29.9 to 1.

Science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged, and students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Featured Hopper's national animal is the hopper, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Featured Hopper is ranked 4,731st in the world and 2nd in Fracking for Most Primitive, scoring 127.15 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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Most Subsidized Industry: 472ndMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 515thLargest Mining Sector: 971stLargest Retail Industry: 1,885thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 2,136thLargest Black Market: 2,477thMost Corrupt Governments: 2,840thTop
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Most Efficient Economies: 3,406thMost Patriotic: 3,523rdMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 3,663rdMost Avoided: 4,067thMost Armed: 4,686thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 4,708thFattest Citizens: 4,724thMost Primitive: 4,731stHighest Average Incomes: 5,248thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 6,513thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 7,307thLargest Governments: 7,389thRudest Citizens: 7,647thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 8,171stHighest Average Tax Rates: 8,555thMost Devout: 10,256thNudest: 12,467thMost Ignorant Citizens: 12,790thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 14,307thTop
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Highest Economic Output: 14,897thLowest Crime Rates: 16,998thMost Advanced Public Education: 24,923rd
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Highest Average Incomes: 1st in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 1st in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 1st in the regionLargest Governments: 1st in the regionLowest Crime Rates: 1st in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 1st in the regionHighest Average Tax Rates: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 1st in the regionNudest: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 1st in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Patriotic: 1st in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1st in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Black Market: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1st in the regionMost Conservative: 1st in the regionTop
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Largest Retail Industry: 2nd in the regionMost Authoritarian: 2nd in the regionMost Primitive: 2nd in the regionMost Armed: 2nd in the regionLargest Manufacturing Sector: 2nd in the regionMost Devout: 2nd in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 2nd in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 2nd in the region

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