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The Randomly Relevant Ratbags of Ardchoille is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 12.894 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

The nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, the study of medicine is popular throughout Ardchoille, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ardchoille's national animal is the domestic cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the brass razoo.

Ardchoille is ranked 5th in the region and 8,665th in the world for Happiest Citizens.