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The Republic of Ehrenfest

“Let them eat squirrels”

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The Republic of Ehrenfest is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, prohibition of alcohol, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 6.983 billion Ehrenfestians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 55.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ehrenfestian economy, worth 849 trillion Dinars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,635 Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho), aspiring musicians couldn't give away their music if they tried, news headlines suggest that Leader has a sideline in guinea pig pimping, and the Ehrenfest Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ehrenfest's national animal is the Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ehrenfest is ranked 35,388^th in the world and 62^nd in Wintreath for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.79 law-abiding acts per hour.

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