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The Completely Hippy Free Land of Beatha

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The Completely Hippy Free Land of Beatha is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 45.424 billion Beathoes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Welfare, with Healthcare, Environment, and Education also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 56.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Beathan economy, worth a remarkable 1,617 trillion Spuds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 35,615 Spuds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, murder victims' families receive windfall payouts when the murderers are executed, the nation's new monarch embarrasses himself during state visits, and veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beatha's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Beatha is ranked 144,958^th in the world and 11^th in Vatican for Most Conservative, scoring 60 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.

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