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“Eat it, rest of the World!”

The Disputed Territories of Rheumatoid Legland is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Stryker Silence with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.519 billion 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 juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Religion & Spirituality, and Education. 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 arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism, prices for nearly everything reach all time highs as business subsidies are discontinued, X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low, and citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rheumatoid Legland's national animal is the effylump, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the euro.

Rheumatoid Legland is ranked 2578th in the region and 54,903rd in the world for Most Godforsaken.