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“Toujours pur”

The Kingdom of North Briton is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 540 million are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Edinburgh. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Gambling industry, followed by Tourism and Basket Weaving.

Jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, criminals are executed and their property seized, and the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Briton's national animal is the Blue Sanquine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ducat.

North Briton is ranked 64th in the region and 45,997th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.