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The Democratic Republic of Cantanasia Objective is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Inita Arden with an even hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 5.931 billion Cantanasians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stockholm. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cantanasian economy, worth 507 trillion SAbits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 85,514 SAbits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records, peer pressure from cooler world leaders directs Cantanasian government policy, ghost regiments exist only on paper, and trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cantanasia Objective's national animal is the pheonix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cantanasia Objective is ranked 24,674^th in the world and 2^nd in Global Communist Liberation Collective for Most Developed, scoring 85.13 on the Human Development Index.