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“Mirrors and fatherhood are alike abominable.”

The Dominion of Coccygia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed population of 607 million 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 Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73%, 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.

The government is avowedly atheist, all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number, euthanasia is legal, and scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coccygia's national animal is the sluggard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dumg.

Coccygia is ranked 8th in the region and 5,812th in the world for Lowest Crime Rates.