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The Democratic Republic of Snestar is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Camilla Carminya Cremisi with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.455 billion Snestaryans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dandelicha. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Snestaryan economy, worth a remarkable 1,028 trillion Euros a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 159,314 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one born in Snestar can fix a leaky faucet, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, the Dandelicha Film Festival recently voted 'Snestaryan Getting Hit By Football' as best film, and sex education has become an intricate maze of stick figures and complex metaphors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Snestar's national animal is the Starfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Snestar is ranked 299,800^th in the world and 12,140^th in Lazarus for Most Patriotic, with 0.76 flags saluted per person per day.