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The Kingdom of Serlanda is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.466 billion Serlandics enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rome. The average income tax rate is 74.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Serlandic economy, worth 859 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,120 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Serlanda's national animal is the Red Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Serlanda is ranked 170,761^st in the world and 7,129^th in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 466.91 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.