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The Venerable Kingdom of Shoeless Joe is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 10.583 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shoeless Joe City. The average income tax rate is 80%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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 government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, Shoeless Joe's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, and punitive tariffs protect local industry. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shoeless Joe's national animal is the Cookie Monster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Strudel.

Shoeless Joe is ranked 1193rd in the region and 52,485th in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.