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The Republic of Piscina

“Per aspera ad astra”

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The Republic of Piscina is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Leonidas Byron with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, lack of airports, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.478 billion Piscinans 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Civitas Libera. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Piscinan economy, worth 877 trillion Certainly Not Yerbits 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 135,489 Certainly Not Yerbits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, and families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Piscina's national animal is the Salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Piscina is ranked 1,501^st in the world and 121^st in 10000 Islands for Most Influential, scoring 75,492 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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