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The Pacific Alpine Commonwealth of Mount Seymour

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The Pacific Alpine Commonwealth of Mount Seymour is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Nathaniel Gardiner with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, smutty television, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.189 billion Seymourians 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, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort-Frédéric-sur-le-Montagne. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The large but stagnant Seymourian economy, worth 296 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is 29,065 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend, parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend, and families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mount Seymour's national animal is the Purple-Spotted Newt, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Seymourian Humanistic Naturalism.

Mount Seymour is ranked 133,334^th in the world and 409^th in Forest for Highest Drug Use, scoring 56.4 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.

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