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The Sushi Republic of Southeast Aarde is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Suriya Turner with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.135 billion Southeast Aardeans 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 Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Koi City. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Southeast Aardean economy, worth 457 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 110,666 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, citizens are bleary-eyed after staying up all night with a good book (Southeast Aarde has found 4 easter eggs), the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially, and there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southeast Aarde's national animal is the Fsocernaib Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Southeast Aarde is ranked 13,686^th in the world and 2^nd in OrangeJuice for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 54.3 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.