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The Solar Earth Based Territory of Kathmandu Island is a huge, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 812 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, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emblazic City. The average income tax rate is 100%. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.

Expensive lawyers are hired to defend citizens in court for public urination charges against their pets, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, the lowest age at which one can marry has been recently lowered to 12, and a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kathmandu Island's national animal is the Plasma Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Plasma Krona.

Kathmandu Island is ranked 22nd in the region and 26,636th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.