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The Socialist Commonwealth of Suthanimark is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leopold Funke with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.14 billion Suthanimarkians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wollefurt. The average income tax rate is 87.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Suthanische economy, worth 122 trillion marks 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 107,846 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

To say that military robots are inclined towards violence is offensive, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, Suthanimark has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, and Leopold Funke panders to nontraditional families. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Suthanimark's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secularism.

Suthanimark is ranked 278,636^th in the world and 715^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Black Market, with 46.6 billion Standard Monetary Units.