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The Commonwealth of Gelph

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The Commonwealth of Gelph is a massive, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.229 billion Gelphers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 82.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gelphian economy, worth 75.8 trillion Buckaroonies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 61,659 Buckaroonies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed, and tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gelph's national animal is the Baby Wheel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gelph is ranked 48,144^th in the world and 578^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 152.84 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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