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The New Guardian on the Block of Noton Mast is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Henning Helgeland with a fair hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.254 billion Noton Mastians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Smoland. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Noton Mastian economy, worth 662 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 155,833 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and happiness is all being miserable together. Crime is totally unknown. Noton Mast's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noton Mast is ranked 312,720^th in the world and 3,640^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -16.99 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.