It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71%, and even higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Book Publishing and Uranium Mining.
Billions of soliduss are being poured into a space program, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Reborn Constantinople's national animal is the eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the solidus.
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