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The Federation in absentia of Allinburg is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by ㏚ Martha Morrow ＆ ㏘ Josh Morrison with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.273 billion Allineans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barston. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Allinean economy, worth a remarkable 3,821 trillion Allinean marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 311,342 Allinean marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, skateboarding is considered a form of diplomacy, they say that Allineans made a dessert and called it peace, and parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions. Crime is totally unknown. Allinburg's national animal is the purplehead eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Allinburg is ranked 6,525^th in the world and 109^th in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 8,703.25 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.