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The Rogue Nation of Guilessness is a huge, safe nation, ruled by The Amazing Magnifico with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate population of 867 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 the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 70%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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 gull is a protected species, there have been reports of people marrying housepets, Members of Parliament operate under a PAYE scheme, and the government has cautiously opted to support women's suffrage. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Guilessness's national animal is the gull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the guile.

Guilessness is ranked 614th in the region and 53,595th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.