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“Learning from the past. Progressing towards the future.”

The Free Land of Ancientia is a massive, devout nation, notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.624 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Healthcare and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CalixauMungudubuleonsanataclin. The average income tax rate is 44%, but much 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.

Cities are engulfed by smog, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, Ancientia's famous countrysides are shrouded by wind farms, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Ancientia's national animal is the platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Uzzi.

Ancientia is ranked 61st in the region and 38,119th in the world for Most Godforsaken.