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The Free Land of Bento Bay

“Peaceful People by a Peaceful Sea!”

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The Free Land of Bento Bay is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Steve Wallace with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 27.195 billion Bento Bayians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Healthcare, Law & Order, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bay Area. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bento Bayian economy, worth a remarkable 2,811 trillion Papers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 103,391 Papers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bento Bay's national animal is the Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Bento Bay is ranked 9,583^rd in the world and 2^nd in Gamer Paradise for Lowest Crime Rates, with 101.87 law-abiding acts per hour.

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