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The Colony of Karietown is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President James T Green with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.04 billion Karietownians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karietown. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karietownian economy, worth 416 trillion guilders 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 137,147 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, and it's been a banner year for local vexillology. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karietown's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karietown is ranked 59,335^th in the world and 1,330^th in The East Pacific for Most Secular, with 20.6 Atheism Rate.