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“E Mare Libertas”

The Principality of Monte Mare is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 943 million are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monte Mare City. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Gambling and Uranium Mining.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, it is illegal to own a mobile phone, and elected officials often serve for decades in a single term. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monte Mare's national animal is the white cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Euro.

Monte Mare is ranked 2nd in the region and 41,651st in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.