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The Community of Hushaby

“The grass is greener where you water it.”

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The Community of Hushaby is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 10.024 billion Hushabyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halifax. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Hushabyian economy, worth 495 trillion greengrasses 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 49,391 greengrasses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams, convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing, and foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hushaby's national animal is the lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Love and Reason.

Hushaby is ranked 61,683^rd in the world and 7^th in Mum for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.44 law-abiding acts per hour.