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The Realm Past the Horizon of Merethin

“Sway in the moonlight, dance in the dark”

Category: Liberal Democratic Socialists
Civil Rights: Good	Economy: Frightening	Political Freedoms: World Benchmark

Location: Starlight

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The Realm Past the Horizon of Merethin is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Iris with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.811 billion Merethinians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Merethin City. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Merethinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,217 trillion golden coins 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 an amazing 209,572 golden coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, farting etiquette is taught in schools, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, and sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Merethin's national animal is the axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Star Sister.

Merethin is ranked 304,043^rd in the world and 557^th in Starlight for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -15.55 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.