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The Republic of Herpitlion is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by President Jarvis Patterson with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.343 billion Herpitlionians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aelia. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Herpitlionian economy, worth 863 trillion witahs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 136,088 witahs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains, government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals, children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Herpitlion's national animal is the gnaeri, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unitarian Universalism.

Herpitlion is ranked 99,186^th in the world and 3,304^th in Lazarus for Most Extreme, scoring 23.72 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.