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The United Kingdom of Antwerpenn is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 16 million Antwerpennians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 32.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Antwerpennian economy, worth 570 billion Euros a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,631 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, the nation is completely gun-free, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antwerpenn's national animal is the Waffle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Antwerpenn is ranked 253,160^th in the world and 67^th in Capitalist Paradise for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.