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The Rainforest Communities of Errinundera is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 11.365 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, liberal individuals 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 First Creek Falls. Income tax is unheard of. 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.

Crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, Max Barry is this year's Miss Errinundera, the government is avowedly atheist, and the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Errinundera's national animal is the long-footed potoroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the bola.

Errinundera is ranked 3rd in the region and 372nd in the world for Most Godforsaken.