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The Most Serene Republic of New Serenity and Bliss is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the Grand Doge with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, ban on automobiles, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.021 billion Serenians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elysium. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The all-consuming Serene and Blissful economy, worth 546 trillion Shines 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 impressive 135,828 Shines, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany the Grand Doge to meetings with foreign heads of state, and park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers. Crime is totally unknown. New Serenity and Bliss's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Serenity and Bliss is ranked 94,098^th in the world and 78^th in The Wellspring for Most Extreme, scoring 24.28 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.