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The Oppressed Peoples of Vaca Gorda is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 308 million Vaca Gordans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Vaca Gordan economy, worth 7.57 trillion leches 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 24,577 leches, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On-duty Air Vaca Gorda flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech, and raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaca Gorda's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vaca Gorda is ranked 303,675^th in the world and 4,910^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -8.83 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.