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“Rolly polly Fish HEADS!”

The Federal Republic of Fish and rice is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 998 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. 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 wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, all beauty contests have been banned, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime is totally unknown. Fish and rice's national animal is the milk fish, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the fish head.

Fish and rice is ranked 822nd in the region and 53,509th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.