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The Grand Duchy of Glendwith

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The Grand Duchy of Glendwith is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Juliette Anne Windhaven with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, unlimited-speed roads, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 3.789 billion Gwiths 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 medium-sized, outspoken government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Education, and Law & Order are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stromwich. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Gwith economy, worth 434 trillion Gwith ducats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 114,729 Gwith ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 432,721 per year while the poor average 21,190, a ratio of 20.4 to 1.

Sick Gwiths are hair today and gone tomorrow, shoppers carry protractors to verify their produce, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, and five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glendwith's national animal is the killer whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Glendwith is ranked 73,404^th in the world and 1,221^st in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 131.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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