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“Progress and Congress”

The People's Democratic Republic of Community Property is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.894 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Social Welfare, and Education. 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.

'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, the Community Property Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', and the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'. Crime is totally unknown. Community Property's national animal is the New Socialist Man, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the hammer.

Community Property is ranked 12th in the region and 704th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.