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The Canton of Ugetu is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Executive with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 22.675 billion Ugetuans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Public Transport, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bern. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Ugetuan economy, worth 610 trillion betales 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 26,902 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Executive has just been declared ruler of Ugetu in an international press conference, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ugetu's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ugetu is ranked 171,555^th in the world and 1^st in Bern for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 184.99 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.