Location: Professor Hells Bot World

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The Matriarchy of Liberal Mellobot is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.94 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.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 45%, but much higher for the wealthy. 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.

The police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime, unemployment rates have skyrocketed as businesses abandon the country in search of cheap labour, aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Liberal Mellobot's national animal is the housecat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the lefbot credit.

Liberal Mellobot is ranked 45th in Professor Hells Bot World and 72,556th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 16 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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