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“Spirituality is the Key to Happiness”

The Theocracy of Opodeldok is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Keith Mitchell with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 12.416 billion are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with areas such as Healthcare and Education receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Opodeldok City. 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.

Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament, Harry Potter books are banned, graffiti graces every city's streets, and phone taps are frequently carried out by the police. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Opodeldok's national animal is the lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the carbon credit.

Opodeldok is ranked 16th in the region and 55,341st in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.