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The Dáxlamic Metropolitanate of Parting Ways

“A road less traveled, all for the better.”

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The Dáxlamic Metropolitanate of Parting Ways is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lýderis Bradford John with an iron fist, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 9.827 billion Parting Waysians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sacred Heart. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Parting Waysian economy, worth 546 trillion Dáxlamic Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 55,604 Dáxlamic Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, religious officials are furious after discovering that things made of stone do not burn well at the stake, the world still seems flat to some people in space, and dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parting Ways's national animal is the Blue Necked Plover, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dáxlam.

Parting Ways is ranked 238,717^th in the world and 127^th in Declansburg for Most Conservative, scoring 43 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.

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