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The Federal Republic of Pantsville

“The train of progress has no brakes”

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The Federal Republic of Pantsville is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Liam Apello with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, otherworldly petting zoo, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 1.429 billion Pantsvilleans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panapolis. The average income tax rate is 62.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pantsvillean economy, worth 177 trillion Faluts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 124,034 Faluts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, the Pantsville Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, and the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer. Crime is totally unknown. Pantsville's national animal is the Underweight Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Pantsville is ranked 19,582^nd in the world and 51^st in Lands End for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 98.9 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.

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