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The Holy Empire of Plaquera is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Comrade with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 17.37 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, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, and the Plaquera Mental Asylum Party have recently won seats in parliament. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plaquera's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the human life.

Plaquera is ranked 290th in Gatesville Inc and 86,257th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 14 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and