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The Democratic States of Bestovia

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The Democratic States of Bestovia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 723 million Bestovians 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bestovian economy, worth 15.1 trillion Moolahs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is 20,931 Moolahs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, the government's giant servers are often used as a tourist trap, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bestovia's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Bestovia is ranked 85,860^th in the world and 40^th in RGBN for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,428.1 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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