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The Free Land of Half Drinks is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by mezzodrinker with a fair hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.649 billion Half Drinkers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Half Drink City. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Half Drunk economy, worth a remarkable 1,288 trillion deposit bottles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 133,579 deposit bottles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives, the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, the government is plagued with uncertainty, and keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Half Drinkers. Crime is totally unknown. Half Drinks's national animal is the catperson, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Half Drinks is ranked 4,499^th in the world and 1^st in Fediverse for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 8,686.36 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.