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The United Kingdom of Fordana

“God Save the Que-oops I mean King”

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The United Kingdom of Fordana is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Henry Andrews with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 19.784 billion Fordans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fordan economy, worth a remarkable 3,702 trillion Pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 187,166 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids, record numbers of students are leaving school to enter the workforce, and school football matches are usually five-a-side. Crime is totally unknown. Fordana's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Anglican.

Fordana is ranked 7,173^rd in the world and 1^st in Official European Union for Nicest Citizens, with 39.7 average smiles per day.

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