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The Comfort of Headpat is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Laetitia with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.342 billion Headpatians 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tizca. The average income tax rate is 59.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Headpatian economy, worth 757 trillion energy boxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 61,362 energy boxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, builders across Headpat are blocked up with orders for new public loos, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, and the nation has an international reputation for compassion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Headpat's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Headpat is ranked 237,864^th in the world and 1^st in Thousand Sons for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.18 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.