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The Republic of Aresten

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The Republic of Aresten is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.471 billion Arestenians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arestenian economy, worth 148 trillion Lire a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,004 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was "Pragmatism", and many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aresten's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aresten is ranked 12,872^nd in the world and 429^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,564.1 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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