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“Where Did It All Go So Very Wrong???”

The Rogue Nation of Pirate Meeces is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.824 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, the Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69%. 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.

Government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, meat-eating is frowned upon, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Pirate Meeces, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pirate Meeces's national animal is the daschund, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the whoopee.

Pirate Meeces is ranked 7th in the region and 3,489th in the world for Most Godforsaken.