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The Republic of South Baba

“Proud and Free”

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The Republic of South Baba is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Alden Ridgeway with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.039 billion South Babans 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bocaugh. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient South Baban economy, worth 747 trillion farthings a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 184,980 farthings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, religious households enthusiastically use whips in private, and five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. South Baba's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

South Baba is ranked 273,762^nd in the world and 13,809^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.25 flags saluted per person per day.

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