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The Parliamentary Republic of Dankstergrad

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The Parliamentary Republic of Dankstergrad is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Shay Castava with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.639 billion Danksterians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Savannah. The average income tax rate is 83.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Danksterian economy, worth a remarkable 2,099 trillion Gradios a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,002 Gradios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, and a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dankstergrad's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of All Worlds.

Dankstergrad is ranked 7,712^th in the world and 180^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,592.26 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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