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The People's Republic of Dock Leaf is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 2.963 billion Dock Leafians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 34.1%.

The Dock Leafian economy, worth 76.8 trillion Golds a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,916 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Dock Leafian grocery store, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Dock Leaf's national animal is the Akita, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dock Leaf is ranked 284,141^st in the world and 15,164^th in Lazarus for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.39 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.