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The Red and Gold Republic of Llorens

“In rose and sun, we are one.”

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The Red and Gold Republic of Llorens is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Justine Vartu with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.608 billion Llorenians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zexaro. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Llorenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,892 trillion llorençs 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 196,991 llorençs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, and the recently liberated free press cautiously uses compliment sandwiches to cushion its criticisms of President Justine Vartu. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Llorens's national animal is the loquito, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Llorens is ranked 964^th in the world and 9^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Governments, scoring 61.5 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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