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“We fight for those, Who cannot fight for themselves.”

The Most Serene Republic of Gormiluch is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Hephaestus Persephone with an even hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate population of 814 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 Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haven. 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 large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, Hephaestus Persephone has just been declared ruler of Gormiluch in an international press conference, the government is avowedly atheist, and schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gormiluch's national animal is the ocelot , which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the urkilchic.

Gormiluch is ranked 35th in the region and 38,326th in the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.