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The Republic of Blue Harbor is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 310 million Blue Harborians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Blue Harborian economy, worth 14.6 trillion waves a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,185 waves, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

News headlines suggest that Leader has a sideline in guinea pig pimping, companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes, it's illegal to be caught on tape, and male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room. Crime is totally unknown. Blue Harbor's national animal is the trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Blue Harbor is ranked 303,391^st in the world and 286^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring zero on the Total War Preparedness Rating.