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The Commonwealth of Glen-Rhodes is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sonja Katarina Balasevic with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 10.689 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand Port. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, Glen-Rhodes's soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region, and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glen-Rhodes's national animal is the Mute Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Humanism, and its currency is the Glen-Rhodes Dollar.

Glen-Rhodes is ranked 200th in Kyzikos and 74,747th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 16 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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