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The Lýderal Metropolis of First Parish

“Faith won't fail!”

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The Lýderal Metropolis of First Parish is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Lýderis Bradford John with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 10.852 billion First Parishioners are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of First Parish. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming First Parishian economy, worth a remarkable 1,171 trillion Dáxlamic Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 107,994 Dáxlamic Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rumor has it that Lýderis Bradford John has won three lotteries in a row, sausages are seldom seen in the supermarket, Lýderis Bradford John spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. First Parish's national animal is the Jumping Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dáxlam.

First Parish is ranked 295,031^st in the world and 163^rd in Declansburg for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 8,315.56 Standard Monetary Units.

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