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The Republic of Mossethagus is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 217 million Mossethagusians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 30.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mossethagusian economy, worth 7.36 trillion Rupes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 33,909 Rupes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, Leader's power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, and homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mossethagus's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mossethagus is ranked 149,197^th in the world and 2,608^th in the Rejected Realms for Nudest, with 132.75 cheeks per square mile.