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The Community of Placeb0 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 416 million 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Religion & Spirituality and Law & Order are on the agenda. 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.

The upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, artists are jailed regularly and art-burning parties are common, and the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Placeb0's national animal is the Mole, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the yen.

Placeb0 is ranked 23rd in the region and 1,341st in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.