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The Most Pristine Republic of Canopytown is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Council of the Canopy with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.224 billion Canopitonians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Understory City. The average income tax rate is 84.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Canopitonese economy, worth a remarkable 1,916 trillion Leaves a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 156,793 Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, the number of judges has tripled in recent months, private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, and children usually cry on their first day of school. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canopytown's national animal is the Canopynian Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Canopytown is ranked 315,452^nd in the world and 13,191^st in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -23.53 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.