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The Protectorate of Quinshelmn Stocks

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The Protectorate of Quinshelmn Stocks is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its digital currency, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 498 million bankers have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The living room sofa. The average income tax rate is 23.4%.

The Araeli economy, worth 25.8 trillion Francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,784 Francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, helicopter parenting is on the rise, people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service, and truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quinshelmn Stocks's national animal is the Marble Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quinshelmn Stocks is ranked 39,699^th in the world and 1^st in QN Stocks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 146.72 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.