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The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven

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The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Iskandar Viridi with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.414 billion Havenians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haventia. The income tax rate is 100.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Verdant Havenian economy, worth a remarkable 2,710 trillion Verdethalers a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 237,467 Verdethalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments, rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers, and traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Verdant Haven's national animal is the Thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Verdant Haven is ranked 1,246^th in the world and 20^th in Forest for Smartest Citizens, with 226.27 quips per hour.

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