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The Incorporated States of Gadsden-Freedonia is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 270 million Gadsden-Freedonians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government prioritizes Spirituality, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.4%.

The very strong Gadsden-Freedonian economy, worth 16.9 trillion Cobras a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Soda Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 62,546 Cobras, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 250,862 per year while the poor average 10,455, a ratio of 24.0 to 1.

Urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, only the fast and the furious are brave enough to drive, and male tourists tend to be fearful of Gadsden-Freedonia's deadly femme fatales. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gadsden-Freedonia's national animal is the Cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gadsden-Freedonia is ranked 262,199^th in the world and 58^th in Liberlandia for Most Conservative, scoring 35.6 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.