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The Commonwealth of New Querto

“Yup, this is a motto”

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The Commonwealth of New Querto is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 489 million New Quertoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Public Transport, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New Quertoan economy, worth 21.3 trillion credits of gratitude a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,595 credits of gratitude, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A new religious movement claims that people's souls are stored in phosphorus, former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Querto's national animal is the earthworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Querto is ranked 204,220^th in the world and 7,024^th in the South Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 14,647.98 Standard Monetary Units.

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