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The Republic of Tellesopia

“What the heck?”

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The Republic of Tellesopia is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 21.19 billion Tellesopians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 3.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tellesopian economy, worth a remarkable 5,459 trillion Sellets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 257,666 Sellets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television, the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds, and the entire entry for Tellesopia in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless'. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Tellesopia's national animal is the Wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tellesopia is ranked 76,930^th in the world and 4,201^st in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,347.86 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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