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The République of Popaholick

“Pour la paix et l'égalité.”

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The République of Popaholick is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Jacqueline St-Miquelon with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 26.837 billion Popaholickans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marseille. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Popaholickan economy, worth a remarkable 9,947 trillion Francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 370,664 Francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, any secret that gets off someone's chest is promptly replaced, days begin with afternoon tea, and candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals. Crime is totally unknown. Popaholick's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Popaholick is ranked 1,915^th in the world and 37^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 821.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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