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Largest Trout Fishing Sector: 9thMost Primitive: 953rdMost Ignorant Citizens: 1,816th
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Get Real

Population3.869 billion

CapitalRelai
LeaderTRFKAQ
Faithsleeping

Currencyfish
Animalfish

The Many bits and bobs of Get Real is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by TRFKAQ with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.869 billion get 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order, Administration, and Environment are also considered important, while Education and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Relai. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.2%.

The frighteningly efficient get realite economy, worth 350 trillion fish a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 90,546 fish, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 424,596 per year while the poor average 11,512, a ratio of 36.9 to 1.

Wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites, chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Relai's playgrounds, and the booming slave trade is now government-funded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. 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 95,228th in the world and 151st in The Black Hawks for Safest, scoring 84.66 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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Largest Trout Fishing Sector: 9thMost Primitive: 953rdMost Ignorant Citizens: 1,816thTop
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Best Weather: 5,796thMost Conservative: 5,941stNudest: 7,417thMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 9,947thMost Subsidized Industry: 10,124thMost Beautiful Environments: 10,324thMost Secular: 10,553rdMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 12,798thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 12,834thTop
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Most Advanced Public Transport: 14,822ndMost Corrupt Governments: 19,589thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 20,633rdMost Pacifist: 21,748thMost Authoritarian: 23,672ndMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 24,003rdLargest Black Market: 24,133rd
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Largest Trout Fishing Sector: 1st in the regionMost Primitive: 3rd in the regionTop
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Best Weather: 6th in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 8th in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 15th in the regionMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 15th in the regionMost Beautiful Environments: 16th in the regionMost Pacifist: 18th in the regionTop
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Most Secular: 21st in the regionNudest: 21st in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 23rd in the regionMost Conservative: 25th in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 26th in the regionMost Advanced Public Transport: 29th in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 33rd in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 36th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, the booming slave trade is now government-funded.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Relai's playgrounds.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, inheritance tax has recently been abolished.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, employers may fire workers without giving any reason.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, Relai's back alleys are rife with sausage eating.
  • : Following new legislation in Get Real, corporations feel proud all year round.

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