The Incorporated States of Great Industria is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 484 million Great Industrians 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 relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Education, Law & Order, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.6%.
The frighteningly efficient Great Industrian economy, worth 32.8 trillion Islass a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 67,715 Islass, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 255,940 per year while the poor average 12,465, a ratio of 20.5 to 1.
Companies are turning to trained Orange Chickens for their most menial jobs, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics, and students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate. Great Industria's national animal is the Orange Chicken, which is also the nation's favorite main course.