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The Principality of Caxina is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by HSH Alexandre Pinheiro with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.174 billion Caxineiros enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Porto. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Caxineiro economy, worth a remarkable 2,358 trillion Gaivotan Pounds 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 193,772 Gaivotan Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, legitimate job descriptions now include "smiling and waving", traumatized ex-ambassadors seek treatment for their "desk dissociation", and it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Caxina. Crime is totally unknown. Caxina's national animal is the Gaivota, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of the Sea.

Caxina is ranked 328,463^rd in the world and 125^th in Portugal for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -18.97 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.