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The Dual Republics of Kanokla is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Alex de la Fontaine with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.317 billion Kanoklies 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Georgetown. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Kanoklan economy, worth a remarkable 1,733 trillion Ameris 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 Tourism. Average income is an impressive 186,007 Ameris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and bike rage is all the rage. Crime is totally unknown. Kanokla's national animal is the North American bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Universal Secularism.

Kanokla is ranked 249,050^th in the world and 819^th in Europe for Largest Black Market, with 142 billion Standard Monetary Units.