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The Commonwealth of Aradas

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The Commonwealth of Aradas is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Lyviunn with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.417 billion Aradasians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baixeiro. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Aradasian economy, worth 242 trillion Dinheiroes a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,078 Dinheiroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, no one knows how to tie a reef knot, and trust-fund babies line up for places in community college. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aradas's national animal is the Aradasian Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aradas is ranked 134,212^th in the world and 65^th in The Western Isles for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 736.67 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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