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The Queen's State of Sara Benton is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 39.592 billion Sara Bentonians 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Sara Bentonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,301 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Gambling industry. Average income is 32,873 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All industry is owned and run by the government, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and the government is reigning in public spending. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sara Benton's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sara Benton is ranked 245,065^th in the world and 1^st in Sara for Most Developed, scoring 51.41 on the Human Development Index.