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The United Wizdom of Great Bestat

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The United Wizdom of Great Bestat is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Bestat Optimus Maximus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.459 billion Greater are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bestadt. The average income tax rate is 71.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Best economy, worth a remarkable 2,348 trillion Stats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 204,957 Stats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Young people never forget their first roommate — no matter how much counselling they have, the vow 'til death do us part' is often taken as an invitation to murder, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Bestat's national animal is the Beastmode, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eternal Optimism.

Great Bestat is ranked 11,055^th in the world and 11^th in International Democratic Union for Lowest Crime Rates, with 99.22 law-abiding acts per hour.

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