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The Most Serene Republic of Santa Calarita is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by IFBB Pro Dario Cantares with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.214 billion Santa Calaritans 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magna Calarita. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Santa Calaritan economy, worth 59.3 trillion dereks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 48,877 dereks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones, worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, and NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people. Crime is totally unknown. Santa Calarita's national animal is the noble squonk, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Santa Calarita is ranked 50,000^th in the world and 272^nd in the West Pacific for Nudest, with 208.5 cheeks per square mile.