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The United Things of Bergslagen

“Libertas, Iustitia, Panem!”

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The United Things of Bergslagen is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Great Thing of Bergslagen with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 7.343 billion Bergslagenians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lüneborg. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Bergslagenic economy, worth a remarkable 1,128 trillion Ration Cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 153,750 Ration Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, one can wake up in Bergslagen and have breakfast in Bigtopia, and weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them. Crime is totally unknown. Bergslagen's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Social Hermetic Gnosticism.

Bergslagen is ranked 91,382^nd in the world and 1,071^st in The North Pacific for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.

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