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“With Great Plantation, Come Great Banana!”

The Republic of Banana LS is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 212 million 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Healthcare and Social Equality are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 58%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Tourism and Gambling.

Euthanasia is illegal, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Banana LS's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Leaf.

Banana LS is ranked 8th in the region and 5,317th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.