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The Nomadic Peoples of Sickly Goats is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 276 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 Social Welfare, Religion & Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 58%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

Euthanasia is legal, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the government's religious works are headed by a New Age guru, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sickly Goats's national animal is the goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the grass.

Sickly Goats is ranked 106th in the region and 20,484th in the world for Most Politically Free Nations.