Location: League of Peacekeepers

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The Catholic Kingdom of Goodclark is a massive, safe nation, ruled by King Victor IV with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.408 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of O'Reaben City. The average income tax rate is 59%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, euthanasia is illegal, and motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Goodclark's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Roman Catholicism , and its currency is the Dollar.

Goodclark is ranked 1st in League of Peacekeepers and 28,453rd in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 6 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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