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The Green Otters' State of Garbelia

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The Green Otters' State of Garbelia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Lutra Otto with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, lack of airports, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 7.654 billion Garbelerii are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garvida. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Garbelery economy, worth 862 trillion Garbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 112,667 Garbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes, too many developers spoil the codebase, and nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths. Crime is totally unknown. Garbelia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutrianism.

Garbelia is ranked 27,485^th in the world and 96^th in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.28 law-abiding acts per hour.

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