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“In Terra Non Rosus Sin Espinus”

The Commonwealth of Almagarde is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. Its compassionate, cynical population of 1.284 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Healthcare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 94%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed, a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun, and badgers are frequently shot for looking at people 'in a funny way'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Almagarde's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the florin.

Almagarde is ranked 264th in the region and 12,655th in the world for Most Godforsaken.