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Largest Trout Fishing Sector: 5thLargest Gambling Industry: 76thBest Weather: 447th
The Issue answerer robots of
Iron Fist Consumerists Champions of Commerce
It already feels like October
Influence
Sprat
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Rare
Economy
Frightening
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Get real

Population9.202 billion

CapitalRelai
Leaderthe trout
Faithsleeping

Currencyfish
Animalfish

The Issue answerer robots of Get real is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by the trout with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.202 billion Realites 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Environment is also considered important, while Social Policy and Education are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Relai. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Realite economy, worth a remarkable 1,687 trillion fish a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 183,391 fish, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,214,743 per year while the poor average 10,644, a ratio of 114 to 1.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, The Trout's new office has a propensity to catch on fire, parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset, and the Relai XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Get real's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is sleeping.

Get real is ranked 55,223rd in the world and 536th in The East Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,461.05 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.

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Largest Trout Fishing Sector: 5thLargest Gambling Industry: 76thBest Weather: 447thHighest Crime Rates: 463rdMost Ignorant Citizens: 547thMost Armed: 924thMost Subsidized Industry: 946thMost Beautiful Environments: 1,002ndHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,858thMost Avoided: 2,085thMost Efficient Economies: 2,411thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 2,473rdMost Corrupt Governments: 2,709thMost Primitive: 2,935thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 3,176thTop
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Most Eco-Friendly Governments: 3,783rdHighest Disposable Incomes: 4,341stHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 4,809thNudest: 6,357thRudest Citizens: 7,158thLargest Black Market: 7,777thHighest Average Incomes: 14,489thTop
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Most Secular: 19,765thHighest Economic Output: 20,418thLargest Retail Industry: 29,633rdMost Advanced Public Transport: 32,045th
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Largest Trout Fishing Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 2nd in the regionBest Weather: 7th in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 7th in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 9th in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 13th in the regionMost Armed: 14th in the regionMost Avoided: 27th in the regionMost Beautiful Environments: 28th in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 34th in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 35th in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 40th in the regionTop
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Most Primitive: 46th in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 49th in the regionLargest Black Market: 58th in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 67th in the regionHighest Disposable Incomes: 74th in the regionNudest: 81st in the regionMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 89th in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 102nd in the regionRudest Citizens: 158th in the regionHighest Average Incomes: 170th in the regionTop
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Highest Economic Output: 257th in the regionMost Secular: 377th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Get real lodged a message on the The East Pacific Regional Message Board.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, the Relai XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, The Trout's new office has a propensity to catch on fire.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, the government is a law unto itself.
  • : Following new legislation in Get real, citizens who become homeless are immediately executed.

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