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The Commonwealth of Cehtika is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-working, democratic population of 689 million Cehtikans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Antegria. The average income tax rate is 11.2%.

The strong Cehtikan economy, worth 35.4 trillion rubles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 51,360 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The new hit series "Cehtika's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, the nation's biggest export is stupidity, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, and almost half of the child population live rough on the streets. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cehtika's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cehtika is ranked 176,526^th in the world and 6,840^th in Lazarus for Most Extreme, scoring 17.02 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.