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The Fansubbing Empire of Dattebayo is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.336 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. The average income tax rate is 24%, 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.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, and the flesh-eating lost souls that wander at night serve as a major tourist attraction (Dattebayo has found 1 easter eggs). Crime is well under control. 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 4th in the region and 34,409th in the world for Rudest Citizens.