Location: The Brotherhood of Muslim Nations

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The Sunni Emirate of Shawb is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.769 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 Social Equality, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ---. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, and citizens must have a license to operate a computer. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shawb's national animal is the ---, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ---.

Shawb is ranked 50th in The Brotherhood of Muslim Nations and 124,369th in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring -5 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and