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“Stick to your hedgehog!”

The Kingdom of Pavaro is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Robert with an even hand, and renowned for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed population of 2.318 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Metropolis. The average income tax rate is 100%. A very small private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Pavaro's leader goes out to lunch surrounded by large men in dark glasses, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, and prisons are crowded with possible terrorist suspects. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pavaro's national animal is the st bernard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the credit.

Pavaro is ranked 810th in the region and 52,180th in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.