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The Sultanate of Caellip Major is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Thadius Lafontaine with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.845 billion Caellip Majorians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Diophoria. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Caellip Majorian economy, worth 106 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 37,541 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caellip Major's national animal is the Red Deer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Caellip Major is ranked 258,534^th in the world and 11,168^th in Lazarus for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4.9 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.