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The Federal Republic of Gonthavnor

“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur”

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The Federal Republic of Gonthavnor is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Arch Mage with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.573 billion Gonthavnorians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roke Peninsula. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gonthavnorian economy, worth 346 trillion Goldivories 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 impressive 134,650 Goldivories, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-Goldivory mansions, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany the Arch Mage to meetings with foreign heads of state, and films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay. Crime is totally unknown. Gonthavnor's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gonthavnor is ranked 7,752^nd in the world and 231^st in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,846.63 pounds of wildlife per square mile.

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