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The Most Serene Republic of Gymnostan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Archimedes D'Siracusa with an even hand, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic, humorless population of 28.477 billion Gymnostanis enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Godiva City. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Gymnostani economy, worth a remarkable 2,197 trillion verduroes a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,172 verduroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Homophobia is off the menu, the sanitised and dull music festivals of Gymnostan are famed for their reasonable volume levels, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gymnostan's national animal is the Gymnostani Mastiff, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Naturism.

Gymnostan is ranked 315,450^th in the world and 5,190^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -19.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.