The Deer Hunters of The Sedge is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sedge with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 22.642 billion Sedgeans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.
The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.2%.
The all-consuming Sedgean economy, worth a remarkable 1,667 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 73,653 Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 362,977 per year while the poor average 8,519, a ratio of 42.6 to 1.
Exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling, the industries of The Sedge are coughing all the way to the bank, a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation, and Sedgean athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Sedge's national animal is the Deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
The Sedge is ranked 226,063rd in the world and 118th in Founderless for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 12.76 Tourists Per Hour.
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The Sedge was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Rebellious Youth.
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The Sedge, Sedgean athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump.
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The Sedge, a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation.
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The Sedge, the industries of The Sedge are coughing all the way to the bank.
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The Sedge was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Pro-Market.
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The Sedge, exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling.
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The Sedge, one of the nation's leading exports is empty platitudes.
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The Sedge, for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs.
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The Sedge, The Sedge City's iconic yellow taxis are nowhere to be seen.
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The Sedge, former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders.