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The People's Republic of Social Catalunya

“Socialism is our sword, democracy its sheath.”

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The People's Republic of Social Catalunya is a very large, genial nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 143 million Catalonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Social Catalunyan economy, worth 2.46 trillion Catalans 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 17,183 Catalans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Torture is illegal, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, Social Catalunyan tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, and nations that kill a Catalonian can expect a strongly worded letter. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Social Catalunya's national animal is the Donkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Social Catalunya is ranked 150,556^th in the world and 983^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 65.57 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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