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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 renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 10.084 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.

Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament, the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, most citizens in Soheran are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, and prices for nearly everything reach all time highs as business subsidies are discontinued. 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 1st in the region and 166th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.