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The Furballland Featured You of A Featured Region is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Featured Region by Furballland with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.533 billion Regions are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, corrupt, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Furballland Featuring Your Regions. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Regional economy, worth a remarkable 2,066 trillion Regions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 216,725 Regions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Furballland Featuring Your Regions to enjoy their national art. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Featured Region's national animal is the Regions, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Goal of Featuring Regions.

A Featured Region is ranked 2,657^th in the world and 1^st in Trading Cards for Most Cultured, scoring 228 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.