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The Hive Mind of Testlandia

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The Hive Mind of Testlandia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Meridian Zero with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory vegetarianism, and hatred of cheese. The democratic population of 36.924 billion Testlandians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Test City. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Testlandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,150 trillion denarii a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 58,252 denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, future leaders of Testlandia regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview, and praying before a battle is a court-martial offence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Testlandia's national animal is the ★★★ nautilus ★★★, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Neo-Violetism.

Testlandia is ranked 174,489^th in the world and 35^th in Testregionia for Most Primitive, scoring -149.1 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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