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The Democratic Republic of Countriopia

“Proletarians of all countries, unite!”

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The Democratic Republic of Countriopia is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 25.238 billion Countriopians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Biseru. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Countriopian economy, worth an astonishing 10,919 trillion Rotons 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 Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 432,652 Rotons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group hugs break out during floor votes, most ambassadors from Countriopia retire only a few years after being appointed, government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Countriopia's national animal is the Countriopian Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Countriopia is ranked 35^th in the world and 1^st in Solidaritat for Highest Food Quality, scoring 723.8 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.

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