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The Federation of El-Sallia

“Fortitudo eius Baltiam tenuit”

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The Federation of El-Sallia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 492 million El-Sallians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baldea. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong El-Sallian economy, worth 34.5 trillion Baldean pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,039 Baldean pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

El-Sallians incessantly needle their doctors for relief, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, children are expected to carve their own toys, and the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El-Sallia's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El-Sallia is ranked 23,362^nd in the world and 771^st in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,527.1 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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