Location: Greater Prussia

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The Free Republic of Kahanistan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the President with a fair hand, and renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 17.018 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Healthcare and Defence are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Masada. The average income tax rate is 64%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kahanistan's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is secularism, and its currency is the shekel.

Kahanistan is ranked 2nd in Greater Prussia and 32,377th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 150 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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