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The Socialist Commonwealth of Kelssek is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 45.278 billion Kelssekians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neorvins. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The all-consuming Kelssek economy, worth a remarkable 5,945 trillion thalers a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 131,308 thalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Neorvins make great practice for foreign snipers, the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless, and swarms of present-laden delivery drones blot out the sun before major holidays. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kelssek's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kelssek is ranked 56,904^th in the world and 635^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 4,633.94 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.