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The Awesome Girlfriends of LovingCouple is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Steve with an even hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, infamous sell-swords, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 8.612 billion LovingCoupleans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Conformatorium. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient LovingCouplean economy, worth 942 trillion snails a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 109,387 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

It turns out you can teach cats new tricks, the caged-bird trade is singing, the nation is renowned abroad for its love of blood and guts, and savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. LovingCouple's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

LovingCouple is ranked 41,456^th in the world and 2^nd in Alliance of Storage Power for Highest Poor Incomes, with 62,524.51 Standard Monetary Units.