Intelligent Neighbors
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| Motto: Come home with your sheild, or on it. | |
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| Region | The Kingdom of the Midlands |
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| Capital | Ankh-Morpork |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | Sigmar Kahn |
| Population | 1.6 billion |
| Currency | £ |
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The Empire of Intelligent Neighbors is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.683 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.
Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, military service is compulsory, military spending is on the increase, and citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Intelligent Neighbors. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force
