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The Soothing Blanket of Coddlespa

“It's okay to be coddled”

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The Soothing Blanket of Coddlespa is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Missus Butters with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.398 billion Coddleds are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Welfare, although Administration, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sauna. The average income tax rate is 41.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Coddlespan economy, worth 376 trillion coddles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,807 coddles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to Missus Butters's wardrobe, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Coddlespan weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coddlespa's national animal is the chihuahua, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coddlespa is ranked 118,770^th in the world and 9^th in Key Results Union for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.84 law-abiding acts per hour.

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