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The Dominion of Gottamba is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, avowedly heterosexual populace, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 667 million Gottambans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 47.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Gottamban economy, worth 32.1 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 48,109 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to Gottamba's border, military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it, a glyph of Leader is worth a thousand letters, and the government's energy policy of refugee 'refuelment' is a well-oiled machine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gottamba's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gottamba is ranked 74,304^th in the world and 7^th in New Karnaria for Highest Poor Incomes, with 40,569.6 Standard Monetary Units.