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The Unpretentious Republic of Allenstan is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 11.605 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Social Welfare, with areas such as Defence and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wookieopolis. The average income tax rate is 64%, 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.

Religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, euthanasia is legal, and the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Allenstan's national animal is the tarsier, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Allenstan perun.

Allenstan is ranked 1st in the region and 33rd in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.