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The Fansubbing Empire of Dattebayo is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its intelligent population of 8.63 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dattebayo City. The average income tax rate is 25%, but much 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.

The government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor, all footpaths have tollbooths, the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque, and the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned. Crime is totally unknown. Dattebayo's national animal is the racoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ryou.

Dattebayo is ranked 1st in the region and 2,838th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.