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The Empire of Golden York is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by HIM Empress Jacqueline III with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, national health service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cheerful population of 13.931 billion Golden Yorkians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Alexandria. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Golden Yorkian economy, worth a remarkable 2,832 trillion Yorkian Dollars 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 203,315 Yorkian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, new regulations have put a halt to monkey business, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Golden York's national animal is the Golden Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Church of York.

Golden York is ranked 2,257^th in the world and 7^th in Thaecia for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 12,918.8 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.