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Everything is big. If it is not, it doesn’t exist because it is not recorded. The FOMO is real.

Buildings are built with the intent of towering over the one next to it, and needles are installed on all of them. Russogermany currently holds the record of the tallest creation, the Mittelfinger, and its pointed tip scratches the ozone layer. Its citizens brag to all their friends in the Euroasian Union about their bigbigbig country and bigbigbig buildings.

Their skin cancer rate is at 50%. It’s the highest percentage in the world.

China attempts to build through the ozone layer. 4,003 workers die in the process and the building collapses because the materials used react negatively with O3. Researchers start to investigate how to overcome the Ozone Dilemma and begin suggesting shooting alpha particles to create a sufficient hole for the building. Activists protest the death of the workers. They disappear soon enough.

Russogermany never reported their death rate. It wasn’t significant enough to mention.