Location: Groland

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The Principality of Saint Gladiolus is a colossal, economically powerful nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.62 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Religion & Spirituality, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 54%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Max Barry is this year's Miss Saint Gladiolus, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, surveillance cameras are banned, and military funding has been stripped back. Crime is totally unknown. Saint Gladiolus's national animal is the paradise bird, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the lyre.

Saint Gladiolus is ranked 24th in Groland and 66,713th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 17 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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