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The Grand Duchy of Da-Cunha is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Tristan Da-Cunha King with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 5.542 billion Da-Cunhans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Da-Cunhan economy, worth 663 trillion Sterlings a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,759 Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public ferries only carry enough lifeboats for the first-class passengers, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, many suspect the government "doth protest too much" with their curiously specific denials of conspiracy theories, and only the richest get to see out of their windows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Da-Cunha's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Misotheism.

Da-Cunha is ranked 207,165^th in the world and 8,312^th in Lazarus for Most Extreme, scoring 14.53 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.