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The February Founder of Takemoto Sen is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Takemoto Sen with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 13.016 billion Takemoto Senians 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 medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liven. The average income tax rate is 47.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Takemoto Senian economy, worth 986 trillion yen 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 75,767 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one is quite sure what many government officials look like, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, Takemoto Sen's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, and a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Takemoto Sen's national animal is the chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Takemoto Sen is ranked 31,373^rd in the world and 1^st in February for Most Cultured, scoring 78 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.