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The Most Serene Republic of Balto

“Clams are people crabs are people legit or quit!”

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The Most Serene Republic of Balto is a huge, genial nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 647 million Yognaughts are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seaportattleland. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Baltoan economy, worth 38.2 trillion Jaffa Cakes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 59,039 Jaffa Cakes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, employers are keenest on employees who lack family values, SPAM is illegal but spam is everywhere, and the government snoops on private internet connections. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Balto's national animal is the Crab People, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Balto is ranked 176,326^th in the world and 3,862^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 112.64 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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