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The Free Land of Aels is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chief Minister Paul Duncan-Jones with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.108 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drayfill. The average income tax rate is 51%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small private sector is dominated by the Basket Weaving industry.

Aels's airwaves are dominated by corporate-backed commercial radio, prison visits increase substantially during election years, only adults may purchase violent video games, and guns are banned. Crime is relatively low. Aels's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Church of Aels, and its currency is the Punt.

Aels is ranked 74th in Rushmore and 96,515th in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring 12 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and