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The Most Serene Republic of Delight

“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”

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The Most Serene Republic of Delight is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 14.423 billion Delightists 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 Healthcare, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elathuria. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Delightian economy, worth a remarkable 1,402 trillion Brass Buttons 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 97,216 Brass Buttons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, and visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Delight's national animal is the Death Meadow Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Delight is ranked 289,172^nd in the world and 6,881^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -20.2 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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