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The Tasty Cooking of Bearistotle and Hebert is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The King and Pope with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.525 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal individuals concentrates mainly on the Environment, although Healthcare and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ursa Major. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.

Almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, the police have been reduced to using duct tape instead of handcuffs following further cutbacks, the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds, and bizarre-looking creatures called 'little old ladydogs' dominate wildlife preserves. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Bearistotle and Hebert's national animal is the little old lady, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Chocolism, and its currency is the preapprovedcreditcard.

Bearistotle and Hebert is ranked 4th in The House at Pooh Corner and 31,119th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 24 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and