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The People's Republic of Changolandia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by João Gordo with an even hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, ban on automobiles, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, cheerful population of 12.705 billion Changolandians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Quanton. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Changolandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,051 trillion Changoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 161,503 Changoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career, and large sections of Changolandia have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Changolandia's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Changolandia is ranked 133,879^th in the world and 2,073^rd in the South Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 20.39 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.