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The Most Serene Republic of Delight

“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”

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The Most Serene Republic of Delight is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 14.497 billion Delightists enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elathuria. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Delightian economy, worth a remarkable 1,396 trillion Brass Buttons 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 Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 96,333 Brass Buttons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Delight's national animal is the Death Meadow Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Delight is ranked 25,878^th in the world and 649^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 241.58 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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