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The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 64.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Vinny economy, worth 52.8 trillion Emotions 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 a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Retail. 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 7,797 Emotions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. WHILE WAITING FOR LILI TO SWITCH VINNY's national animal is the Vampire, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

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