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The State of Prairiegrass is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Tommy Smith with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.407 billion Prairiegrassians 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Felinapolis. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The powerhouse Prairiegrassian economy, worth 329 trillion Wheatons a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 96,748 Wheatons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People often get liposuction to reduce their air fares, former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés, dining out often involves Prairie Cats on the plate no matter what you order, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prairiegrass's national animal is the Prairie Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Prairiegrass is ranked 307,956^th in the world and 10^th in British Columbia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 4,256.92 Standard Monetary Units.