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“Capitalism Gets Boring, Too”

The Re-Revolutionary Republic of Soheran is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Supreme Anarch with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.328 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soher. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, graffiti graces every city's streets, and the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Soheran after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Soheran's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the lump of clay.

Soheran is ranked 2nd in the region and 54,740th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.