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The Fash Bash Jam Sesh Fest of Based Guitar is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Woody Guthrie with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, absence of drug laws, and exploding hoverboards. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 6.096 billion Guitarists hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Okemah. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.6%.

The strong Based economy, worth 331 trillion chords a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 54,386 chords, with the richest citizens earning 7.8 times as much as the poorest.

Political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, cars are banned, Woody Guthrie has just been declared ruler of Based Guitar in an international press conference, and This Land is Your Land has been named as Based Guitar's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Based Guitar's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is This Land is Your Land.

Based Guitar is ranked 146,073^rd in the world and 107^th in The Yamada Ryo Star Warriors for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 75.39 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.