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“Du pain et les jeux du cirque.”

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The Free Land of Simenon is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 43.104 billion Simenonians 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 tiny government prioritizes Education, with Social Policy and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liège. The average income tax rate is 18.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Simenonian economy, worth a remarkable 2,210 trillion franc belges a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Gambling. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,282 franc belges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, the "right of sanctuary" stops police pursuit into temples and churches, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Simenon's national animal is the chat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Simenon is ranked 6,134^th in the world and 7^th in Universal Dream Network for Most Cultured, scoring 142 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.