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The Community of St Stephen n Critters

“Gramen artificiosum ne fumisses”

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The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Head with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 41.913 billion St Stephen n Crittersians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Circumstance. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped St Stephen n Crittersian economy, worth a remarkable 7,358 trillion Jerry Berries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 175,565 Jerry Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, government expenses are beyond compare, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular humanism.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 291,078^th in the world and 52^nd in Hippy Haven for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -109.48 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.

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