Straight Arm Salute

Straight Arm Salute is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 16.539 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

New safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Straight Arm Salute to be bombproof, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, and criminals are thrown to the American Bald Eagles to repay their debt to society. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Straight Arm Salute's national animal is the American Bald Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its currency is the American Dollar.

Region: The URAP