Location: New Sorvun

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The Speaker of Ironicness is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Bowron with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.927 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 juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jasperion City. The average income tax rate is 67%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, CDs are regularly copy-protected, euthanasia is legal, and Max Barry is this year's Miss Ironicness. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ironicness's national animal is the maybelle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Pastafarianism, and its currency is the gold nugget.

Ironicness is ranked 18th in New Sorvun and 70,735th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 103 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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