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The Anarchist Republic of Gartohol is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by People with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, humorless population of 3.374 billion Gartishes have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rekhtasat. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gartoholian economy, worth 585 trillion Dinars a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Tourism, Retail, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 173,584 Dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

People who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, and young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables. Crime is totally unknown. Gartohol's national animal is the Snow white Cheetah, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Gartohol is ranked 51,021^st in the world and 845^th in the Rejected Realms for Nudest, with 207.25 cheeks per square mile.