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The Matriarchy of Phlytraps is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its feral children, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.156 billion Phlytrapsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capricorn. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The large but inefficient Phlytrapsian economy, worth 109 trillion Clamshells a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Tourism industry. Average income is 50,584 Clamshells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, and citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phlytraps's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Artemisism.

Phlytraps is ranked 9,535^th in the world and 4^th in Swallowtail for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,722.65 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.