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“Equality in Humanity”

The Republic of Jesselton is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.197 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kepayan. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even 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.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, invading armies are given hard glares for their cheek, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, and the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Jesselton's national animal is the jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dinar.

Jesselton is ranked 59th in the region and 45,955th in the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.