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“Black cats are not bad luck.”

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The Republic of Centopiaa is a small, socially progressive nation, notable for its absence of drug laws. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 40 million Centopiaans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 7.6%.

The Centopiaan economy, worth 2.12 trillion centops a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 52,952 centops, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation is compulsory, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, all facts are created equal, and forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies. Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. Centopiaa's national animal is the Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Centopiaa is ranked 236,100^th in the world and 72^nd in The Social Liberal Union for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.