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The United Socialist States of Kilobugya is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.781 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fraternia. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, and the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'. Crime is totally unknown. Kilobugya's national animal is the Bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Columbus.

Kilobugya is ranked 11th in the region and 55,147th in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.