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The Apolytonian Surfdom of Grant Park - Harrow is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jimmie with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed population of 2.245 billion 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 concentrates mainly on Healthcare, although Public Transport and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockwood. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is led by the Retail industry, followed by Tourism and Furniture Restoration.

The nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem, teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties, and the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Grant Park - Harrow's national animal is the pirate, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the zuken.

Grant Park - Harrow is ranked 2nd in the region and 14,991st in the world for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector.