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The Federal Republic of Kartujia

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The Federal Republic of Kartujia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mauricio III with a fair hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.381 billion Kartujans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asvestina. The average income tax rate is 53.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Kartujian economy, worth 94.4 trillion Tesseriates a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 39,666 Tesseriates, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, insolent whistleblowers receive their just desserts on deserted isles, unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kartujia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianism.

Kartujia is ranked 162,504^th in the world and 6,479^th in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 9.43 Obesity Rate.

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