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Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 28,513th
The Dictatorship of
Compulsory Consumerist State
Raised by the streets
Influence
Nipper
Region
Civil Rights
Average
Economy
Very Strong
Political Freedom
Rare

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Big Ounce

Population247 million

CurrencyWhopper
AnimalChicken Nugget

The Dictatorship of Big Ounce is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 247 million hustlers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.0%.

The very strong Pimpin' economy, worth 14.5 trillion Whoppers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 58,800 Whoppers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 182,751 per year while the poor average 14,553, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, the government invades its allies more than its enemies, and crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Big Ounce's national animal is the Chicken Nugget, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Big Ounce is ranked 77,731st in the world and 61st in Ambition for Most Ignorant Citizens, with 21.23 missed references per hour.

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Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 28,513th
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Most Corrupt Governments: 21st in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 33rd in the regionMost Pro-Market: 42nd in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 43rd in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 44th in the regionTop
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Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 50th in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 61st in the regionMost Conservative: 91st in the regionLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 101st in the regionMost Patriotic: 118th in the regionFattest Citizens: 129th in the regionMost Authoritarian: 161st in the regionTop
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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 256th in the regionMost Avoided: 297th in the region

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